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"Graphic violence" meant "violence in images" in my lifetime. Because so many people "learn" words by guessing their meaning from context, it now means what An
by drewcoo 1y ago
"Graphic violence" meant "violence in images" in my lifetime.
Because so many people "learn" words by guessing their meaning from context, it now means what Anthony Burgess called "ultraviolence" in A Clockwork Orange.
Cartoons have already had several re-thinking of what's appropriate as norms have changed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censored_Eleven https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censored_Eleven
- haskellshill 1y ago> "Graphic violence" meant "violence in images" in my lifetime. I doubt that > graphic (adj.) "vivid, describing accurately ," 1660s (graphically "vividly" is from 1570s) [...] Meaning "pertaining to drawing" is from 1756. https://www.etymonline.com/word/graphic https://www.etymonline.com/word/graphic