Re: Vulgarity
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 3, 1999, 6:36 |
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On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Sally Caves wrote:
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> > It's the humorous reitierations of unfounded aspersions on the virtue
> > of ones opponents parents that are so tiresome and vulgar...
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> You mean like "Your mother's so fat" jokes? But I love those!
>
Ai! Typo here - I mean humor_less_... But out of curiosity,
how does the obesity of ones mother mean she's of easy virtue?
As an aside - once an American teacher told me he was shocked
by the vulgarity of the common Dutch swearing vocbulary - which
is full of shit's and fuck's, even for three-year olds, I'm
afraid. What he apparently didn't realize was that everyone was
simply aping what they heard on television. And since those words
are foreign, they don't have any real meaning in Dutch.
In Denden, when you want to swear, you can simply use the name
of a god or goddess you don't like (and more importantly,
that your own preferred gods and goddesses don't like).
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt