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.

(Richard Cranium) wrote in message . com...
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.

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"Dick, you're fired!"

"Dit dah dit dah dit dah..." [sound of Morse Academy eliminating Dick]

(Brian) wrote:
"Dit dah dit dah dit dah..." [sound of Morse Academy eliminating Dick]

HMMMMMMMMMMMMM. (sound of cooling fans eliminating brianburke).

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(Richard Cranium) wrote in message . com...
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.

We now have "Ham Radio" magazine, and "73 Magazine" both now defunct.

Would you like the adjective "defunct" in front of ARS???

"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
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"****" 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
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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?