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Re: vulgarisms

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Thursday, November 12, 1998, 3:09
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998 21:02:53 -0500 John Cowan <cowan@...>
writes:

>The general pattern in English is that *domestic* animals are >insulting: "dog", "cow", "bitch", "horse"; but not "wolf", "lion", >"tiger"; still less "rhinoceros", "stegosaurus".
>John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
God forbid that "stegosaurus" should ever become an insult! :) -Stephen (Steg) ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]