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Date Posted: 09:17:57 08/03/07 Fri
Author: Michael
Subject: Re: Talkcafe?
In reply to: Deuteronomy Jones 's message, "Re: Talkcafe?" on 17:51:46 08/02/07 Thu

>
>>Dunno. My urologist quite enjoys using the word
>"cock."
>
>It's a great word, that. I think it's because it's so
>abrupt and Anglo-Saxon.
>
>My best friend has turned it into an adjective, saying
>things like: "Cocking great idiot"

Are 'obscene' words mainly Old English or Anglo-Saxon? We even use the term 'Anglo-Saxon' as a euphemism for swearing. Perhaps its to do with the conquering Normans viewing Saxon/English words as crude and vulgar, and by association also the English/Anglo-Saxons.
After all villian was originally a word meaning villager. It would run parallel with the use of words to do with food and animals, with the Anglo-Saxon word being used for the animal (pigs, cow, sheep) since they farmed them, and the Norman word being used for the food (pork, beef, mutton) since they ate them.

Those sodding Normans, oh, pardon my Anglo-Saxon. One millenium later and STILL there is a division of sorts.

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