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chenGOD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-04 11:13 AM
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4. My take...
I don't have a problem with any of the sex/violence/what have you. Show what you will.

The language thing really puts me in a quandary though. As an ESL teacher in South Korea, it really saddens me to see the use of English words in the "pop" vernacular. It saddens me for two reasons. 1) It is not correct English usage, and makes it more difficult for students of proper English when they are exposed to this bastardization. 2) Korean is a very beautiful language of it's own and it saddens me to see the younger generation throw away parts of their beautiful culture. Like when I see the word "new" written out phonetically in Korean, as opposed to the word that Koreans already have for new. My Korean wife (who at 29 is hardly an old biddy) certainly agrees with me, in fact she might be even more vehement about the issue.

So it puts me in a quandary because while I do not approve of censorship in any way shape or form, I would really like to see this use of casual/bastardized English stop.
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