No more oral sex in the 4th grade!

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by ardeegee

I'd call them a few things, but my dictionary doesn't have those words...

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[ardeegee]

This is what parents fear all that dictionary reading could lead up to-- dancing!:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...102dance1.html

Remember kids, Patrick Swayze danced like this, and now he is dead!

[alecE]

So I guess that's farewell to the f-words and the c-words, and I suppose the p-word and the v-word will have to go too; better get rid of the s-words, b-words, n-word; *and* the j-word and the m-word. Better go the Fahrenheit 451 route, burn the dictionaries and have abstract symbols for all those 'difficult' things.

[devilsadvocate]

*sigh*.

All of these "evil" words were invented because there was a need to describe something. If we take those words out, they will invent different words to describe the same thing a la Alex in A Clockwork Orange.

If my setpson asks me, I'll warn him that it's about *that*, and tell him the truth.

If we outlaw words we become a police state.

[Sparrow]

Please can we stop calling them dictionaries, it sounds so rude!

Definitionaries is now the preferred term.

Oh, and also can you stop using your dictaphone; use your finger like everyone else.

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

Please can we stop calling them dictionaries, it sounds so rude!

Definitionaries is now the preferred term.

Oh, and also can you stop using your dictaphone; use your finger like everyone else.

Hear! Hear!



Yet more words of wisdom from the fellow who looks up petticoats!

I'm with you, bro!

[dsvick]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

Please can we stop calling them dictionaries, it sounds so rude!

Definitionaries is now the preferred term.

Oh, and also can you stop using your dictaphone; use your finger like everyone else.

And taking dictation is right out as well.

[devilsadvocate]

Originally Posted by dsvick

And taking dictation is right out as well.

Especially if the person doing the dictating is a certain former presidente with a predilection for cigars...

Wait, wait! Would "predilection" be outlawed too? Does sound kinda perverted...

[devilsadvocate]

And of course, after they kicked Pluto out of the Planet Club, we'll most likely have to rename Uranus.

Or we could deliberately mispronounce it, like newscasters do with the word harassment (they'll pronounce it "HAIR-ess-ment" instead of "her-ASS-ment", at least in the Midwest).

[Moejoe]

No more Diary of Anne Frank either

http://www2.starexponent.com/cse/new...it_text/51217/

A version of an iconic autobiography detailing a young Jewish girl’s two-year experience hiding from Nazis in a cramped “Secret Annex” has been pulled from the shelves of Culpeper County Public Schools.

[devilsadvocate]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

No more Diary of Anne Frank either

http://www2.starexponent.com/cse/new...it_text/51217/

Yeah, because, y'know, females have only had reproductive organs since 1943.

[kindlekitten]

actually it was amazingly graphic writing in some respects. I think I was 10 or 11 when I first read it and only had a vague idea of what she was talking about in the bits about her self discovery

[Dylrob]

According to Amazon.com, “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl,” tops the list of commonly banned children’s books in public schools nationwide.

The reason listed for banning this book is “for being too depressing for students.”

Yes, because our children should be allowed to grow up believing the world is full of nothing but butterflies and rainbows!

[Verencat]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

No more Diary of Anne Frank either

http://www2.starexponent.com/cse/new...it_text/51217/

Apparently I read the first edition because I have no recollection of any sexual references. They say the definitive edition, with the 30% of the text her father edited out, was only published in 1995, and I'm positive I read it before it's release.

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by Verencat

Apparently I read the first edition because I have no recollection of any sexual references. They say the definitive edition, with the 30% of the text her father edited out, was only published in 1995, and I'm positive I read it before it's release.

There's a "Revised Critical Edition" by the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation that places three versions (I thinks its original scans of everything, the Otto Frank version, and the "complete" version) all next to each other on the page (I have no idea if they'd be able to do this in ebook form). It also has a lot of reference and historical material in it.

http://www.amazon.com/Diary-Anne-Fra.../dp/0385508476

The diary is rated by my sister as having the most profound affect on her of any book when growing up, and it's still a subject that occupies her, and so I bought this version for her. She says that, for her, it's "the ultimate".

Cheers,
Marc