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To: grey_whiskers
To a Protestant ( and yes, I am one ), "profanity" is using GOD's name in vain and the like; even the euphemisms such a "golly", "gee whiz", etc.!

Vulgarity is something else again and includes Anglo-Saxon words/terminology, which, FYI...only became "vulgar", as in the coarse meaning of the word "common", once William the Conqueror, also know, in that time as William the bastard" ( since he was born on the wrong side of the sheets or blanket, depending upon the translation from "Old French", because the new "court language" was "Old French"! It took quite a few generations, for the Anglo-Saxon and Old French to kind of merge and it was still more Germanic than English as we know it, by the time of Chaucer.

Please don't try to play word and derivation games with me; I have been fascinated by words since I was three and have made the study of words, phrases,euphemisms, and slang a life long study/hobby.

Where did you get all that you wrote and the CCPed? Wiki? ;^)

256 posted on 11/08/2017 11:30:37 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

I taught myself to read at age 3.
Good to see you recognized the quotes as legit. That Hideous Strength was my favorite book growing up. Have you read his “The Allegory of Love” since
you know aught of European language? Language, story, and culture being all intertwined.

Incidentally, higher end dictionaries give the etymology of words, enough to start a Wikipedia search. SJWs always project, and you’ve been acting like one in this thread.


260 posted on 11/09/2017 6:16:37 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are silly those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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