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Re:Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics... by GabrielF00 on Monday January 12, 2015 @08:44AM (#8873791)
> “Their plan was just” — he used an expletive perhaps appropriate for his new role at the iconoclastic start-up — “really impressive.”

Gotta love The New York Times. It takes them fourteen words to avoid printing the word "fucking". And of course they imply that a culture critic at a serious publication like The New Yorker would never countenance the use of casual profanity. Only a young start-up whippersnapper.

One is reminded of Family Guy's take on The New Yorker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6MyeCXmiKw

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Re:Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics... by scott_s on Monday January 12, 2015 @11:36AM (#8874788)
I think that's less an avoidance of printing the work "fucking", and more a concerted effort to use the word "iconoclastic".
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Re:Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics... by k-mcgrady on Monday January 12, 2015 @09:13AM (#8873910)
>> "And of course they imply that a culture critic at a serious publication like The New Yorker would never countenance the use of casual profanity. Only a young start-up whippersnapper."

I don't think it's a reference to startups in general but to this particular startup.

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Re:Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics... by cbd1984 on Monday January 12, 2015 @11:01AM (#8874568)
Heaven forfend adults should use adult language.
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Re:Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics... by Apocryphon on Monday January 12, 2015 @01:02PM (#8875360)
On the other hand, are vulgarities truly "adult"?
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Re:Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics... by zem on Monday January 12, 2015 @09:25PM (#8877757)
insofar as we seem to have a dogmatic insistence that children not use them
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Re:Pop Music Critic Leaves the New Yorker to Annotate Lyrics... by Ollinson on Monday January 12, 2015 @01:47PM (#8875634)
The New Yorker doesn't shy away from profanity. If you search the magazine archives you'll find many instances of fuck, bitch, asshole, etc.

A simple google search also shows this to be true (fuck site:newyorker.com).

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