--- Forwarded Message from "Wolfgang E. Adolph" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:01:17 -0400 >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >From: "Wolfgang E. Adolph" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #8651.3 (!) "Clean" movies >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >References: <[log in to unmask]> 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: >--- Forwarded Message from "Todd F. Hughes" <[log in to unmask]> --- > > >From: "Todd F. Hughes" <[log in to unmask]> > >To: "'Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum'" ><[log in to unmask]> > >References: <[log in to unmask]> > >Subject: RE: #8651.1 (!) "Clean" movies > >Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:32:17 -0500 > >In-reply-to: <[log in to unmask]> > >Thread-Index: AcgHjiLCUAC8rQJISI2r55xd2SbOLgAAGn6A > >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 > >-----Original Message----- >From: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum >[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of LLTI-Editor >Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 3:27 PM >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: SV: #8651.1 (!) "Clean" movies > >--- Forwarded Message from Eva Dam Jensen <[log in to unmask]> --- > > >From: Eva Dam Jensen <[log in to unmask]> > >To: [log in to unmask] > >Subject: SV: #8651 "Clean" movies > >Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 15:54:48 +0200 > > >Dear all, >Surely, this must be a joke?????? > >Eva Dam Jensen >University of Copenhagen >Denmark > > > > > > 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 > > > > [log in to unmask] > > > > > > *********************************************** > > LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for > > Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language > > Teaching > > and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). > > Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. > > Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) > > ***********************************************