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"Richard Cranium" wrote in message om... Ron Hardin wrote in message ... Dr. Anton Phibes wrote: "This is really, really [expletive] brilliant," Bono said during the ceremony, using the f-word as an adjective. The speech aired live on the East Coast. The FCC said it received 234 complaints, all but 17 of them from individuals associated with the Parents Television Council, a nonprofit group that monitors programs for adult content. That's an adverb, not an adjective. Um, no; it is modifying "brilliant", which is a noun. Thus it is an adjective. Brilliant is an adjective in the above sentence as he was not referring to a precious gem. bril·liant adj. Full of light; shining. See Synonyms at bright. Relating to or being a hue that has a combination of high lightness and strong saturation. Sharp and clear in tone. Glorious; magnificent: the brilliant court life at Versailles. Superb; wonderful: The soloist gave a brilliant performance. Marked by unusual and impressive intellectual acuteness: a brilliant mind; a brilliant solution to the problem. See Synonyms at intelligent. n. A precious gem, especially a diamond, finely cut in So the sentence in question has the following structure. This - pronoun, subject of sentence is - verb, state of being really, really [expletive] - string of adverbs modifying the adjective that follows. [expletive] referred to is a special case where the adverb has been formed from a verb. brilliant - a characteristic and thus an adjective not a noun. It has the same nature as the sentence "John is tired" which uses an adjective to describe John. It is not the nature as the sentence "John is a boy". The first sentence is noun-verb-adjective where the latter is noun-verb-noun. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
Richard Cranium wrote: Ron Hardin wrote in message ... Dr. Anton Phibes wrote: "This is really, really [expletive] brilliant," Bono said during the ceremony, using the f-word as an adjective. The speech aired live on the East Coast. The FCC said it received 234 complaints, all but 17 of them from individuals associated with the Parents Television Council, a nonprofit group that monitors programs for adult content. That's an adverb, not an adjective. Um, no; it is modifying "brilliant", which is a noun. Thus it is an adjective. Um, no. A noun is a person, place, or thing. "Brilliant" is none of these See http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/...ouns.html#noun .. |
"Mike Yetsko" wrote in message ... "****" has been heard a few times, but the only one I can think of I'm not sure of. War Games? Anyone know of other places? And "teats" all over the place. Just recently in a broadcast of 'Witness' with Harrison Ford in the barn with the Amish farmer... Yea, i've been noticing more and more old movies that at one time had certain words or phrases either blanked out or replaced by more "family oriented" ones (I prefer not to be insulted myself and just head about a quarter of a second of diead air, it's less condescending) are now just letting the words go by. New shows are taking advantage, too. I don't write the names down of shows that use these words, as i have better things to do, but for quite while you can hear the phrase "kick ass", "****ed off", etc. Clint |
"LRod" wrote in message . .. I guess C, CS, and MF are the only ones left. well, I don't know why MF is not allowed if the FCC ruled that it was okay for Bono of U2 to say "****" on television. Clint |
"Richard Cranium" wrote in message om... That's an adverb, not an adjective. Um, no; it is modifying "brilliant", which is a noun. Thus it is an adjective. geez, does it really matter? It's the same word... if the FCC is going to stoop to THAT low of a level to let certain words "slide" now, why not just do away with all censoring all at once? it'll degenerate one day to the type of television they have in europe and australia, where I hear just about anything goes. Clint |
Jack wrote in
: On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 15:16:25 -0500, "Clint" rattlehead at computron dot net wrote: "Richard Cranium" wrote in message .com... That's an adverb, not an adjective. Um, no; it is modifying "brilliant", which is a noun. Thus it is an adjective. geez, does it really matter? It's the same word... if the FCC is going to stoop to THAT low of a level to let certain words "slide" now, why not just do away with all censoring all at once? it'll degenerate one day to the type of television they have in europe and australia, where I hear just about anything goes. Clint As compared to where else? For the most part, European TV is vastly superior in quality to US television. When it comes to childrens programming, I've discovered that Australia and New Zealand have produced some of the best and most imaginative kids TV series I've seen. In the US, the trash and even worse is there and quite visible. They just use verbal and visual euphanisms, which is even more objectionable. -Jack- The question is, does this now mean we can say the F word on ham radio? |
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