Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel70 Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho,uk.media.tv.sf.drwho Subject: Re: Doctor Who: RTD in the Radio Times. Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 17:45:30 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 09:45:33 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f1b105d3ef600eeb948b8e644a51be11"; logging-data="1971817"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18GVzmqtr5x7XxWji/XvhmIMKdl0aICLoM=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.18 Cancel-Lock: sha1:HY8yHGGZtuyO6FCs+zs7FBsxe0Q= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2086 The Doctor wrote on 19/06/2024 6:44 am: > In article , The Last Doctor > wrote: >> The Doctor wrote: >>> Now a days considered a "Homophic slur" >> >> Not in the civilised world, it’s not. The parochialism of >> Americans is the problem here. What will they do when they realise >> that “Fanny” means vulva in English, and not arse (or “ass” >> as that ass Webster bowdlerised it for no good reason) as they >> imagine? >> >> Kindly stop censoring innocent English words because you want to >> manufacture outrage by acting like a prudish American. They are >> NOT entitled to dictate the meaning of words in real English. > > You are sounding like Stephen Wilson. So, maybe, Stephen Wilson *WAS* correct all along, Gobble-de-gook!! -- Daniel