Bad Language

Ian & Pam Dorion dorioni@ipa.net
Sat, 31 Jan 1998 06:14:45 -0600 (00886270485, 199801311216.GAA03135@thunder.ipa.net) 

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> TILL

> In the essay by D. H. Lawrence that I mentioned, he had a slightly

different

> explanation.  He claimed that syphilis became a scourge in the royal

family

> during the time of Henry VIII, and it eventually spread to other

> aristocratic families.  As a result it became taboo in polite society to

use

> the old Anglo Saxon words for the sex organs and bodily functions; hence,

> "urinate" replaced "piss," "defecate" replaced "shit," "copulate"

replaced

> "fuck," etc.

> 

> Farrell Till

> Skepticism, Inc.

> jftill@midwest.net


IAN
Notice how the words became more complicared. Oh for the simple life!