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> “Their plan was just” — he used an expletive perhaps appropriate for his new role at the iconoclastic start-up — “really impressive.” Gotta love The New York
by GabrielF00 12y ago
> “Their plan was just” — he used an expletive perhaps appropriate for his new role at the iconoclastic start-up — “really impressive.”
Gotta love The New York Times. It takes them fourteen words to avoid printing the word "fucking". And of course they imply that a culture critic at a serious publication like The New Yorker would never countenance the use of casual profanity. Only a young start-up whippersnapper.
One is reminded of Family Guy's take on The New Yorker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6MyeCXmiKw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6MyeCXmiKw
- k-mcgrady 12y ago>> "And of course they imply that a culture critic at a serious publication like The New Yorker would never countenance the use of casual profanity. Only a young start-up whippersnapper." I don't think it's a reference to startups in general but to this particular startup.
- cbd1984 12y agoHeaven forfend adults should use adult language.
- Apocryphon 12y agoOn the other hand, are vulgarities truly "adult"?
- zem 12y agoinsofar as we seem to have a dogmatic insistence that children not use them
- scott_s 12y agoI think that's less an avoidance of printing the work "fucking", and more a concerted effort to use the word "iconoclastic".
- Ollinson 12y agoThe New Yorker doesn't shy away from profanity. If you search the magazine archives you'll find many instances of fuck, bitch, asshole, etc. A simple google search also shows this to be true (fuck site:newyorker.com).