----- Original Message ----- From: "Bradford DeLong" <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 7:04 AM Subject: Re: 9/11
> >It's rather astounding to contemplate that something of the
scale of
> >9/11 is what it takes to get swear words on TV.
>
> Well, if we don't have special words that something on the
scale of
> 9/11 is what it takes to get them uttered on TV, our language
would
> have limited inadequate expressive power, wouldn't it?
>
>
> Brad DeLong
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Does that mean CBS should do a documentary with the soldiers and airmen who went to Afghanistan upon return to see how many causally use racist epithets in describing their enemy? Think the US citizenry is now, post-innocence, mature enough to hear other ugly words.
Ian