Comments on: ‘Onkel Barack’? http://www.thenewmediadiva.com/2008/06/12/onkel-barack/ Rashunda Tramble on... Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:05:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Wolf http://www.thenewmediadiva.com/2008/06/12/onkel-barack/comment-page-1/#comment-130 Wolf Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:10:01 +0000 http://www.thenewmediadiva.com/?p=95#comment-130 The intention of the title is not clear and remains inexplicable. Similarly therefore, the question of an apology is not at all clear just by considering the title. Is it a warm hearted "bad taste" joke? Is it s cold blooded attention getter to boost dwindling print news sales? Clearly, people got upset and so that much is apparent - and that is what the authors could have prevented. And that is why they should consider to clarify the basis of why at all that they think that was funny and they must apologize. There was another instance where apparent ambiguities and awkward alliterations are the source of considerable chagrin and thus should be avoided for greater audiences: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_%22niggardly%22 The intention of the title is not clear and remains inexplicable. Similarly therefore, the question of an apology is not at all clear just by considering the title. Is it a warm hearted “bad taste” joke? Is it s cold blooded attention getter to boost dwindling print news sales?

Clearly, people got upset and so that much is apparent – and that is what the authors could have prevented. And that is why they should consider to clarify the basis of why at all that they think that was funny and they must apologize.

There was another instance where apparent ambiguities and awkward alliterations are the source of considerable chagrin and thus should be avoided for greater audiences:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_%22niggardly%22

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