{"id":62,"date":"2009-06-01T12:41:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T12:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2009-05-29T15:53:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T15:53:10","slug":"the-no-cussing-club-extends-its-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/01\/the-no-cussing-club-extends-its-reach\/","title":{"rendered":"The No Cussing Club extends its reach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/no-cussing-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Cussing not allowed\" title=\"Cussing not allowed\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-156\" \/>Recently in Los Angeles County, the county supervisor decided to proclaim a <em>No Cussing Week<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This follows on from the success of McKay Hatch, a 14 year old who started a &#8220;No Cussing Club&#8221; at his middle school a couple of years ago &#8211; he&#8217;s even appeared on &#8220;Dr. Phil&#8221;. As someone who swears reasonably frequently and with some pleasure, I was amazed at this, along with a quick search that revealed there&#8217;s an organisation called the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/03\/a-week-without.html\">Cuss Control Academy<\/a>&#8220;, whose two stated purposes are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. To increase awareness of the negative impact bad language has on society and on individuals who swear too frequently or inappropriately.<\/p>\n<p>2. To help individuals and groups eliminate or reduce their use of profanity, vulgarity and offensive slang.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The organisation has even printed a book to out those who wish to rid themselves of their foul mouth. Personally, I disagree with their purposes. I think most adults have enough control to know that cussing has a time and a place, and the idea that it\u2019s somehow responsible for the destruction of the moral fabric of society is perhaps a little farfetched.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for those in LA County though, the supervisor\u2019s spokesman <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/03\/a-week-without.html\">says<\/a> <em>No Cussing Week<\/em> &#8220;[Is] not enforceable. It\u2019s like Breast Cancer Awareness Week. We want to remind people about their choice of words. Use different language &#8212; be kind; be civil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And that I think we can all agree with. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently in Los Angeles County, the county supervisor decided to proclaim a No Cussing Week. This follows on from the success of McKay Hatch, a 14 year old who started a &#8220;No Cussing Club&#8221; at his middle school a couple of years ago &#8211; he&#8217;s even appeared on &#8220;Dr. Phil&#8221;. As someone who swears reasonably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35],"tags":[41,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-events","tag-america","tag-cussing","tag-language","tag-swearing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}