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To: vannrox
"Under the circumstances, we were concerned it would be offensive to our audience," Hoover said.

This is really disturbing to me. Whenever there is a "bleep" on television, we are conditioned to assume it was a word(s) which are traditionally considered to be "obscene." Usually, if you watch the mouth of the speaker, you can even "see" what they're really saying. So now they're bleeping "Jesus;" hmmm......when did that word become obscene?

3 posted on 06/11/2002 2:23:00 PM PDT by EggsAckley
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To: EggsAckley
welcome to the end times...
5 posted on 06/11/2002 2:25:34 PM PDT by MatthewViti
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To: EggsAckley
This might be a digression, but what the heck...

I know that in English, we often say the word "Jesus" when we hit our thumb with a hammer [for example], or as an exclamation of mild displeasure.

The Spanish speaking community, however, use this in place of "God Bless You" when someone sneezes for example. They will also use it as the first name of a male son - something unheard of in the English speaking world.

Cultural difference really, but kind of interesting from that perspective...

8 posted on 06/11/2002 2:29:03 PM PDT by Bon mots
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