POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.off-topic: Distortion of meaning? - contains one use of moderate language: Re: Distortion of meaning?

POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Distortion of meaning? - contains one use of moderate language : Re: Distortion of meaning? - contains one use of moderate language		Server Time: 8 Sep 2008 05:03:45 GMT

From: Sabrina Kilian
Date: 29 Apr 2008 19:11:07

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:09:59 -0400, John VanSickle wrote:

> Doctor John wrote:
>> Watching a trailer for 'Ironman' last night, I noticed the warning
>> "Contains strong violence and one use of moderate language".
> 
> They probably intended to say "mature" or "immoderate," spelled it
> wrong, and the spell checker changed it to "moderate."
> 
> Regards,
> John

I think it is shortened from 'moderately offensive' language. Who ever 
shortened it just didn't pay attention to the new meaning of the sentence.

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