Things often seem quite surreal to me – perhaps it is just that I am getting older! I watched a snippet of BBC news early one morning recently. They were following up a story about a headteacher (of a primary school, I think) who had written to all parents requesting that they did not use bad language in front of their children.
The BBC reporter duly interviewed people in the street as to whether they thought that this was a good or bad thing and the general consensus was that children should never be exposed to bad language.
The irony is that the language used in many television and radio programmes broadcast well before the so-called “watershed” is often littered with swearing and inappropriate expletives and sexual references.
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