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Re: USAGE: Dirty words (was: USAGE: Re: Dutch v or f)

From:Tony Hogard <james.hogard@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 24, 2002, 23:06
Roger Mills writes:

> Re Jan's original post: In the olden days (before porn was so widely > available), it was suggested you take a lover. But that might not > always > work, if the lover turned out to be repressed or squeamish about > using such > words........ In those days too, one had to go to great lengths to > find > porn in print. There were the Olympia Press editions of the Marquis > de > Sade, but the translation was so antiquated and "lit'r'y" that your > new > vocabulary would be quite quaint. The only way it helped me-- I > learned > "verge", so did not need to ask for a meaning when I heard Spanish > "¡vergas!"
> Porn videos are much more fun, but, strangely ;-), lacking in > dialogue.
An editorial in this week's _Onion_: Why Do Porn Actors Have To Use Such Foul Language? "There are impressionable young kids watching these videos..." http://www.theonion.com/onion3815/why_do_porn_actors.html -Tone

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