What happened to plain English?

May 18th, 2010

closeThis story was published 3 months 19 days ago - and there is loads of new stuff to view on this blog. Not saying the story will not be interesting (of course it is) but there is a wealth of new material available from the blog home page.

Time to don my grumpy trousers… temporarily I assure you.

Sitting down last night for an evening’s entertainment in front of the gogglebox, a voiceover before a film warned me that the film I was about to watch contained “scenes of a violent nature and language.”

The film contains language? Well unless the lead actor is Marcel Marceau, I kinda hoped it would. Makes it easier to follow what’s going on if there’s language, especially if the script covers concepts slightly-more complicated than “stuck in a glass box” and “walking into the wind”.

Yes, I know what they mean; strong language, language that may offend some people. So why not say so?

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