Talk:Seven dirty words

Later use of the words
I think any unreferenced addition in the Later use of the words section should be removed, there's many that borderline encyclopedic and just "why is this in here". I was going to be bold but adding this won out. Mlpearc ( open channel ) 23:17, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I am not normally inclined to delete content other editors have made the effort to compile, but I agree this is in the wrong place. We don't need a list of every time somebody F-bombed on live TV.  It is leading the substance of this article astray.  I suggest we create an article something like List of unacceptable language incidents on live broadcast; a list that the 7 words would appear upon. Trackinfo (talk) 06:31, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Yeah I agree, it's the kind of thing that can spin out of control and end up dominating the article. I'm going to heavily prune it (maybe to just the first recorded instances or something) very shortly unless someone comes up with a very good reason why not :-) Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 13:11, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Notification of a TFA nomination
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Steven Pinker
Is it worth mentioning the book of the same title by Steven Pinker? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seven-Words-You-Cant-Television-ebook/dp/B002RI9QCG/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1442866317&sr=8-9&keywords=Steven+pinker 213.104.254.248 (talk) 20:15, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

There are now 68 swear words that are not allowed on TV
They range from the word "asshole" to the word "wop." http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-68-words-you-cant-say-on-tv 2607:FB90:A4EC:F9A5:0:E:EBB8:E601 (talk) 23:41, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

These include as well as the classic swear words, ethnic and religious smears and sexual smears. I would suppose that some political smears involving variants of these words (use your imagination or simply recall something that can be done with "Republican" or "Democrat") are on the list.

Rush Limbaugh did get away with "feminazi".Pbrower2a (talk) 09:41, 27 April 2021 (UTC)


 * This is beyond the scope indicated by the WP:FIRSTSENTENCE, though the article does currently go beyond that. Also WP:RSP describes buzzfeed as "the least trusted news source in America". Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 09:57, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

FCC internal guidelines
Here, I have removed an assertion saying, ", but it [the FCC] has alleged that its own internal guidelines are sufficient to determine what it considers obscene." That assertion has been tagged cn since February 2010. In March 2010, this edit replaced an earlier cn tagged assertion saying ", but it has maintained general guidelines regarding obscenities.", providing no support and leaving the cn tag then in place.

I did some googling around re the FCC, obscenity, and internal guidelines, and turned up this, which says that if a determination is made by the FCC to investigate a complaint, FCC staff members will often send a Letter of Inquiry ("LOI") to the broadcaster named in the complaint and. after the broadcaster responds to the LOI, FCC staff members must decide whether a violation has in fact occurred. If the staff members conclude that a violation has occurred, they send the broadcaster a Notice of Apparent Liability ("NAL"). The "internal guidelines" connection there is where it says, "and the FCC has internal guidelines for tracking and processing NALs." I didn't think that sufficiently supported the assertion, hence the removal. Perhaps there is a WP:RS out there somewhere which would support an assertion that the FCC has internal guidelines sufficient to determine what it considers obscene but, if so, I haven't found them.

Perhaps this article ought to mention "I know it when I see it", Jacobellis v. Ohio and Potter Stewart. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:25, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

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Proposed edit of quotation
If the quotation uses "was" instead of "is", shouldn't the auxiliary be "didn't" instead of "don't"? Because "I don't know there was" sounds politically incorrect to me. --Fandelasketchup (talk) 10:56, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

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"Fart", "Turd", and "Twat"
In George Carlin's special "George Carlin: Again!", he does a follow-up routine titled "Filthy Words" where he further breaks down the seven words as well as mentions some new words to add to the list, those being "fart", "turd", and "twat". My edit got reverted and I must ask is it really not worthy to at least mention this bit briefly? Which is exactly what I did in the aforementioned edit?

This was what I added: Other words that Carlin brought up in his follow-up to the routine, "Filthy Words", include "fart", "turd", and "twat".

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