Re: Vulgarity

Kristian Jensen wrote:
>
> Sally Caves wrote:
>
> >Bryan Maloney wrote:
> >>
> >> To misquote my favorite composer:
> >>
> >> "If it's made for lovin', it's got to stay out of reach.
> >>  For you can't take it out on the beach!"
> >>
> >> So, who has worked out any convulgarity?
> >
> >Oh, T. is full of it, but only the most commonplace or outlandish
> >expressions am I willing to give glosses of.
> >
> Go ahead! -and that includes everyone who can. I'm curious to what
> vulgarities different conlangs can muster. When a conlang can
> already express vulgarity with its own flavor, then it must be well
> developed. I have yet to go that far.
>
> -kristian- 8-)
Oh, it was basically to be able to swear without swearing, if you
know what I mean, when I was young and swearing was so proscribed.
But I got old and cynical in graduate school and swearing in English
didn't seem so difficult.  ;-)

Oh, it was stuff like (in T.) you "pus puddle," "you venereal disease,"
"you monkey dog's diseased penis."  You know, I can't even give you
the stuff in original Teonaht... it's still too private!  It was my
area where I could be completely secretive.  But it would be fun to
make up some new ones (those I gave are just approximations), sort
of on the order of what someone did once on a list that had me
LOL:  I'm sure most of you have seen it.  They gathered a list of
Shakespearean adjectives in one column, Shakespearean present
progressives in another, and Shakespearean nouns in the third column.
To "insult" someone, you drew at random from all three columns:

        You injurious pond-scuzzling pud, etc.

It would be fun to draw up such a list for Teonaht.  Or any other
conlang.

Sally