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Foul language is filling up prime time TV. Credit: Getty Images
The Hollywood Reporter points out that the PTC's list of dirty words has grown larger than the seven that George Carlin famously identified many years ago. "Suck" is now part of the equation, along with "screw" and "balls." Presumably these statistics don't include the voicing of these words on "This Old House" or weekly NFL games.
What do you think? Is there too much profanity on TV these days? As a parent, does that bother you?
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11-11-2010 @ 10:38AM
Abby Styleson said...Uh YEAH - of COURSE there is! We haven't even had a TV in the house in over 5 years. And sure, all of us will still be stuck hearing trash from people's garbage mouths when we're out and about, but at least we don't have to welcome it into our home now! We let the kids play online games, but nothing violent or bloody. We all enjoy Http://bit.ly/GamesForFree as they are family friendly, fun games that are free to play and you don't have to sign up or anything. What children watch, they imitate, (this goes for game play too). Do you really want your toddler/preschooler cussing you out when you tell him to go to bed?
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11-16-2010 @ 9:22AM
Thomas Nietering said...What we hate the most is when they take the Lord's name (Jesus Christ) in vain. When they bring a movie to regular TV and get rid of the bad language, they still take the Lord's name in vain as if it"s not swearing.
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11-11-2010 @ 1:59PM
Gayle said...Yes way to much so we watch PBS. At 5:30 the t.v. is turned off. It is to much for me and my kids. We hear enough cussing out in public don't need it on our t.v. too.
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11-11-2010 @ 5:18PM
Alicia said...If I were a parent, I might be bothered. I'm just a writing student though and I consider profanity just another set of words that can be used to express the human experience. I also don't find them profane, but to each their own. However, what the article failed to mention was how much of the profanity was during prime time as opposed to when a kid would be awake and watching television.
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11-11-2010 @ 8:16PM
Carol said...My daughters are grown now, but I still find the increasing profanity on television and movies offensive. I'm pretty liberal, especially when it comes to the entertainment arts, but I don't think the profanity is necessary to convey the movie or television story. In reading Alicia's comment I thought that's pretty much what my daughters would say, age 26 and 32. Maybe it's because my generation views the use of profanity as an indication that someone is "rough" or rebellious and not accepting societal rules of communication in public. It looks like the standard is changing and younger people aren't even jarred by hearing profanity, it seems like normal communication to them. From an objective viewpoint maybe it doesn't matter and as older generations die off, it won't be an issue. It will just become normal for children and adults to use profanity as they communicate. But I miss the more gentile and articulate speech that used to be on television and movies. It was language that motivated people to aspire to sound more sophisticated and articulate. Language has become much more banal and limited since Shakespeare's time. We're moving in the wrong direction!
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11-11-2010 @ 8:38PM
Alicia said...I disagree that language has become more banal and limited, it has simply changed. And most people didn't speak like Shakespeare wrote in the 1500s. He added flourishes and often made up his own words. And don't forget, it was only a little more than 500 years before Shakespeare that profanities weren't at all profane but were simply words used by the Saxons to describe the world around them. The Normans dubbed them obscene after 1066 because they considered the Saxons barbaric. It's why we refer to the animal as "pig" (Saxon) and the meat as "pork" (Norman).
11-12-2010 @ 10:10AM
Lillian Barclay said...We have become a Nation of Garbage Mouthed citizens which is not the sort of image we need to project.
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8-20-2011 @ 7:01AM
Thornsbury said...I can accept the use of profanity on dramatic TV shows, like cop or medical series, but I don't know if I care to hear them spoken on sitcoms.
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