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>Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:01:17 -0400
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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>From: "Wolfgang E. Adolph" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #8651.3 (!) "Clean" movies
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It should be a joke (are Fassbinder movies allowed at Vanderbuilt) :-(
From this to burning/banning/blacking out bad words is just a small step.
I may be naive, but this seems to be completely unacceptable at the
university level.
Also, in this case I would hope that the distributor of a movie
"tampered" with in such a way, would come down hard on the institution.
Wolfgang
At 01:47 PM 10/8/2007, you wrote:
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> >From: "Todd F. Hughes" <[log in to unmask]>
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> >Subject: RE: #8651.1 (!) "Clean" movies
> >Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:32:17 -0500
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>Oh no, this is very much NOT a joke. Even worse are the faculty members who
>come and say that they want to "shake things up around here." I kindly have
>to explain that "you don't shake up Vanderbilt University." Some of them
>get the hint, some of them crash and burn.
>
>Todd Hughes
>Director, Language Center
>Vanderbilt University
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> >From: Eva Dam Jensen <[log in to unmask]>
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> >Subject: SV: #8651 "Clean" movies
> >Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:54:48 +0200
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>Dear all,
>Surely, this must be a joke??????
>
>Eva Dam Jensen
>University of Copenhagen
>Denmark
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>
> >
> > Hello to all.
> >
> > Here is a problem some of you may have already solved. While not
> > many Universities and colleges may have this problem I am sure almost
> > all high schools do. To be succinct, we need a way to "clean" up
> > strong language in foreign language film subtitles. Some of our
> > students, here, have complained about this and will not watch films
> > that contain this. I have read about the clean view DVD player that
> > has filters one purchases to accompany it. Would this solve the
> > problem?
> >
> > Very best to all, Mike Ledgerwood
> >
> > Mikle D. Ledgerwood, Ph.D.
> > Chair of World Languages and Cultures
> > Professor of French
> > Samford University
> > 800 Lakeshore Drive
> > Birmingham, AL 35229
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