Devoted to technical writing and technical writers

After that piece on the proper usage of WHO versus THAT, I decided to check out a movie to see if this practice of verbal abuse would be widespread in that particular screenplay.  Well, I was not to be disappointed, because the actors in said drama kept on using THAT in place of WHO so often that I figured the script to be full of this aberration.

Who am I to question how a script should be written? Aside from this rather minor slip-up, the more alarming fact is that profanity is now so commonly used in movie language that even little kids mouth these words in their everyday conversations. This is probably a bigger problem. But obscene language takes a back seat to the often scandalous way we refer to a particular deity, especially one of Christian flavor. 

The faithful of Islam take particular offense at any slanted reference to their Holy Book, the Prophet, or Almighty God. Enough to drive fringe elements to a frenzy. That should be instructive to those of us who take the use of the name of a deity in vain, or subject persons or situations to scandal or blasphemy. Respect must be the norm ALWAYS….even if a so-called script demands otherwise.

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