Ayun ([info]ayun) wrote,
@ 2009-04-28 14:43:00
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Letters to the Supreme Court, Second in an Occasional Series
In a 5-4 decision, the justices said federal law has long prohibited the broadcast of "indecent" language, and they said the Federal Communications Commission had ample authority to crack down on what Justice Antonin Scalia called the "foul-mouthed glitteratae from Hollywood."
David G. Savage, LA Times
Dear Antonin Scalia,

Don't think you can charm me with hamfisted pluralization of a Latinate word!

Pedantically,
Ann.

PS:
If you think two and a half million people under the age of 18 give enough of a shit about the Billboard awards to watch Cher accept one of them, it's time to think about retirement.

Previously.



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[info]rojagato
2009-04-28 07:14 pm UTC (link)
On the one hand, I was relieved that this only applied to broadcast (still), but on the other hand, I'm like, what's next on the censorship agenda? cuneiform?

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[info]clevernonsense
2009-04-28 08:55 pm UTC (link)
How did they come up with that #?

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[info]ayun
2009-04-28 09:21 pm UTC (link)
It had to be some kludge from Nielsen data - there's no good way to accurately count that kind of thing.

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[info]damiel
2009-04-29 01:57 pm UTC (link)
Justice Scalia got the idea for his witty gender-specific pluralization while bored out of his wits at an Opus Day Retreat (an all-day retreat for members of the Opus Dei), conducted entirely in Latin.

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[info]ayun
2009-05-01 01:17 am UTC (link)
Opus Day Retreat (an all-day retreat for members of the Opus Dei)
Awesome.

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