Erudite Romans :)
From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, November 10, 1999, 21:59 |
edheil@postmark.net writes:
>
>The side effect is that naughty Romans merely sound erudite. :)
Boy, those romans could have the foulest mouths and sound clincal to my
ears :).
Anyway, I read somewhere that all of the polite terms for bodily functions
and parts either come from Middle French or Latin, and all the rude words
are of Anglo-Saxon origin. True? Yes? No?
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