Re: Novel, Novella (was Re: Re: I'm new!)

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:56:11 -0400, Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote:

>Carlos Thompson replying to Dan Sulani:
>-->About vocabulary in _telenovelas_, I don't thing you should care.  Of
>>course they would pick regional dialects (Mexican, Venezolan,
>>Argentinan, etc.) but the language is usually quite politically
>>correct (even insults in Mexican/Venezolan telenovelas; Colombian ones
>>are a little more colourfull).>
>
>Exactly. Spanish-language TV may be _suggestive_, but never foul-mouthed.
>More power to them! (Though at times it reminds me of the silly old days,
>when the Marines took Iwo Jima to shouts of  "Golly, gee, darn it". Harry
>Truman caused a major flap when he referred, in a private letter, to a
>music critic as an "S.O.B." )  Even Latino rockers, despite all the
>leather/grunge, come across as rather sweet and innocent (at least on
>TV)......
What I find odd about Spanish speakers is that even those with rather
puritanical or "proper" attitudes (with a few exceptions) regularly use
words which in English would be considered crude.

Jeff