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Thread #42081   Message #609836
Posted By: Jeri
14-Dec-01 - 02:45 PM
Thread Name: BS: Euphemisms and asterisks
Subject: RE: Euphemisms and asterisks
Well, Spaw, I like f**k music. Not the Barry White kind, but then I'd guess, to know what type I mean, you'd have to be able to tell what I meant by the *s. And then we'd have to define it.

I think non-traditional is to traditional vulgarity as singer/songwriters are to Child ballads. Basically nobody knows what the h*ll they're talkin' about except them. You have to explain things to people, and when they understand what you mean, they ask "so why did you bother?"

I'm thinking science fiction TV shows and movies. I watch "Farscape," and they've got a whole bunch of non-traditions vulgarities. "Frell" means whatever any unknown, one-syllable word starting with F usually means on TV. There's something that sounds like "menugnucks" that means male reproductive organs of the sort that normally come in pairs, otherwise known as b*lls. There was another show on (can't remember the name, but it had Lorne Greene and Ritchard Hatch as Capt Apollo, who was a hunk, but I'm rambling) that used the word "felgercarp" to mean fecal material, otherwise known as sh*t. I honestly don't know what good it does to change the word if everybody knows what you mean. (Of course, the made-up words are funny, and the reason they're funny is because they had to be made up in the first place.)

Frelling B - what a load of felgercarp!