Comments on: NYT taboo avoidance fail http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/nyt-taboo-avoidance-fail/ A blog mostly about language Sat, 25 May 2013 03:51:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Best of Language Blog Roundup 2012 | Wordnik http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/nyt-taboo-avoidance-fail/#comment-43375 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 15:07:55 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11506#comment-43375 [...] noun cocksuckers as “Offensive Adjective Inappropriate for Family Newspaper.” As Arnold Zwicky wrote, “Adjective, noun, who really cares?” The NYT then refused to print the name of the website, [...]

]]> By: Adjectives « Arnold Zwicky's Blog http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/nyt-taboo-avoidance-fail/#comment-30830 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 23:50:27 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11506#comment-30830 [...] I was reminded of the NYT‘s use of adjective to refer to the word cocksuckers, reported on here. I’m beginning to understand what’s going on [...]

]]> By: This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: Mars, Olympics, and more | Wordnik http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/nyt-taboo-avoidance-fail/#comment-29226 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:05:30 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11506#comment-29226 [...] New York Times had some taboo avoidance fail this week, as explained by Arnold Zwicky: “Ah, that wonderful English adjective cocksuckers (in its plural form, of course, and serving as [...]

]]> By: arnold zwicky http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/nyt-taboo-avoidance-fail/#comment-28376 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:53:01 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=11506#comment-28376 In e-mail, Larry Horn comments waggishly on my suggested out-of-quotes paraphrase:

Not specific enough. I’d have gone for

“… and newly arrived immigrants who do not seek attention like you” fellators.

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