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* Sometimes people who work around children try to temper other people's language. In the 1970s, one school district in the US dealt with a demand that the book ''Making It With Mademoiselle'' be removed from the shelves of the high-school library. An assiduous investigation, in the form of actually opening the book, revealed that it was a volume of sewing patterns from the editors of ''Mademoiselle'', a fashion magazine. |
* Sometimes people who work around children try to temper other people's language. In the 1970s, one school district in the US dealt with a demand that the book ''Making It With Mademoiselle'' be removed from the shelves of the high-school library. An assiduous investigation, in the form of actually opening the book, revealed that it was a volume of sewing patterns from the editors of ''Mademoiselle'', a fashion magazine. |
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* ESL teachers of adult learners are often split on the topic of just how clean your speech needs to be in class. On the one hand, teachers should be professional and this includes appropriate language; on the other, part of teaching your students about usage includes vulgarity (so they at least know just how bad ''other'' people's language is). Most teachers settle for keeping their own vocabulary G-rated but not censoring students. |
* ESL teachers of adult learners are often split on the topic of just how clean your speech needs to be in class. On the one hand, teachers should be professional and this includes appropriate language; on the other, part of teaching your students about usage includes vulgarity (so they at least know just how bad ''other'' people's language is). Most teachers settle for keeping their own vocabulary G-rated but not censoring students. |
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** Making matters worse, textbooks written for ESL teachers in training are largely silent on the topic. One assumes that lessons on correct usage of vulgarity and profanity are not condoned, though. |
** Making matters worse, textbooks written for ESL teachers in training are largely silent on the topic. One assumes that lessons on correct usage of vulgarity and profanity are not condoned, though. This has lead several self-study books devoted entirely to profanity. One notable example is ''Dark Horizon'', a parody of the ubiquitous Japanese textbook series ''New Horizon'' where the characters have failed in life and become bums, prostitutes and criminals. |
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** Japanese as a second language faces a similar problem even though the language ''lacks words you can't say on television'' that aren't about groups of people. New learners are only taught the most polite language possible even though less polite language is normal, especially for men. This results in a stereotype of non-native posters using polite, feminine language, even though [[There Are No Girls on the Internet|everyone around them is using casual, masculine language]]. |
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* Foreign languages have their own equivalents of this trope. In particular, oaths that refer to religious imagery were often "sanitized" into nonsense Gosh Dang It to Heck. |
* Foreign languages have their own equivalents of this trope. In particular, oaths that refer to religious imagery were often "sanitized" into nonsense Gosh Dang It to Heck. |
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** In German, "Gottes Blitz" (God's Lightning) became "Potz Blitz." |
** In German, "Gottes Blitz" (God's Lightning) became "Potz Blitz." |
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