The FT asked if it should print swearwords in the paper and this reader really went for it
Over at the Financial Times they’ve been having a discussion about whether the paper should print swear words in full – like the Guardian does – or continue to spare readers’ blushes.
This reader’s letter really goes for it and it’s just fabulous, as highlighted by the paper’s acting transport correspondent, Josh Spero.
We asked whether we should use swearing in the paper and one reader really went for it pic.twitter.com/9dix5s3kFT
— Josh Spero (@joshspero) November 19, 2018
Beautiful. And here are some of our favourite things people said in response.
I feel like it might be fun to have a couple of martinis with Judith.
— Mark Emlyn Evans (@marcooth) November 19, 2018
“pissy little euphemisms” is my new favourite band https://t.co/mKFswfMRDD
— Esther Beadle (@estherbeadle) November 19, 2018
https://twitter.com/katebevan/status/1064441493216272384
Have to agree tbf. Sure perhaps not advocate it within articles written by journalists (and even that is arguably acceptable) but letters and interviews definitely. No child is reading FT. We all know what is meant, no point beating around the bush.
— James Marsh (@JamesWillMarsh) November 19, 2018
I tend to agree – it’s a grown-up paper.
— Josh Spero (@joshspero) November 19, 2018
Getting two "fuck"s and a "twatting" into one story was perhaps my finest moment in journalism. Admittedly a Lunch With the FT with Bob Geldof.
— Alan Beattie (@alanbeattie) November 19, 2018
https://twitter.com/OfficeOfCraig/status/1064802409996845056
I may spend all my free time walking round Winchester wearing a sandwich board, searching for Judith Martin. I'd quite like to be her friend. https://t.co/KXDSTI7BMc
— Isabel Rogers (@Isabelwriter) November 19, 2018
