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Date Posted: 14:27:12 08/05/07 Sun
Author: Toy tiger
Subject: Re: Euphemisms
In reply to: Bakhtin Jones 's message, "Re: Euphemisms" on 13:51:18 08/03/07 Fri

>>i think it has something to do with an "educated"
>>elite superiorizing itself above the simple people. as
>>a sign of "higher knowledge" the elite devaluates the
>>way the "lower class" speaks - including their
>>vocabulary. the elite tries to make the members of the
>>lower class feel even lower as they are told they are
>>"talking dirty".
>
>
>Mikhael Bakhtin described the language of the lower
>classes as "various genres of Billingsgate" because he
>heard lots of fabulous swear words and colloquialisms
>at Billingsgate market in London. For him, this was
>the language of liberation and carnival.

Don't know how relevant this is, but I've heard University professors, and people making hundreds of thousands a year, use language that would make a truck driver blush, as long as they thought they were safe from public reporting. OTOH, I have often heard truck drivers talk on and on without using a single swear word.

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