#bowdlerisation

“Animal Farm, classically, is a story without a happy ending. But Serkis’ interpretation gives viewers closure. The film adds an entirely new third act: Lucky has a change of heart and apologizes, the animals take down Napoleon and the evil capitalistic Pilkington. Lucky tells the cautionary tale for a new generation.”

Oh. Yes. That’s exactly what the current moment needs, an Animal Farm sweetened up for kids in which the villains get tidied away and a “young innocent piglet gets a moral arc and a slightly offbeat side-plot romance.”

I’m sure Orwell would agree that the real abusers of power always have a change of heart and apologise.

I suppose it’s a matter of other countries’ media censorship laws

that BTV programmes like ‘Inspector Spacetime’ sometimes get altered to make them less rude than they originally were.

My word of the day: Bowdlerisation.

n.bowdlerisation – the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent.

I have written about this before but I had no idea it had a term.

It’s when f*ck*ng w**** newspapers, for example, use *’s to bleep our letters from words like c*nt so that they are apparently less offensive.

But we all know what a c*nt is.

A c*nt is Don*ld Tr*mp and apparently there’s a trend for people…

i fucking LOVE languages man dont get me wrong but

what the fuck kind of word is that

bowdlerize

i did a double take at that word like ??? what the hell is that bowdlerize???? what