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	Dirty Words

JimVAT

2-15-2008 7:00 PM

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JimVAT says:

As they say..."don't get nasty"

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It used to be that words were dirty because they were too anatomical,
too pungently evocative of sheer physicalness to be permissible in
mixed company. The offending source was always Celtic or Anglo-Saxon
(Go figure.) Latin words were almost always acceptable -- feces, urine,
anus, penis, glans, testicles, mammaries, vagina, vulva, coitus,
orgasm. Because they're not especially successful words; they don't
instantly summon a vivid, sensual (i.e., lurid and smelly) experience
of the thing so named. The Anglo-Saxon words are all works of verbal
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