Deadwood to Add Black Characters Next Season

St. Peterburg Times ^ | June 27, 2004 | Eric Deggans

[BrooklynGOP]

was the F word around during that time frame?

I am pretty sure that nudity wasn't.

[mumbo]

Yep. The Victorian syntax salted with the Anglo-Saxon profanity is a strangely addicting device. You almost have to visualize the spoken words as a written sentence to understand a lot of the humor, too. I laugh a lot more than my wife, because she can't build the sentences in her head. You really have to listen to the dialog.

EB Farnum: "An august commencement to my administration, waiting outside the door for a degenerate t!t-licker to pass."

[BrooklynGOP]

From the dictionary:

[Middle English, attested in pseudo-Latin fuccant, (they) fuck, deciphered from gxddbov.] Word History: The obscenity fuck is a very old word and has been considered shocking from the first, though it is seen in print much more often now than in the past. Its first known occurrence, in code because of its unacceptability, is in a poem composed in a mixture of Latin and English sometime before 1500. The poem, which satirizes the Carmelite friars of Cambridge, England, takes its title, “Flen flyys,” from the first words of its opening line, “Flen, flyys, and freris,” that is, “fleas, flies, and friars.” The line that contains fuck reads “Non sunt in coeli, quia gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk.” The Latin words “Non sunt in coeli, quia,” mean “they [the friars] are not in heaven, since.” The code “gxddbov xxkxzt pg ifmk” is easily broken by simply substituting the preceding letter in the alphabet, keeping in mind differences in the alphabet and in spelling between then and now: i was then used for both i and j; v was used for both u and v; and vv was used for w. This yields “fvccant [a fake Latin form] vvivys of heli.” The whole thus reads in translation: “They are not in heaven because they fuck wives of Ely [a town near Cambridge].”

[Old Professer]

Looks like RoseofTexas was onto something after all.

[steplock]

"I had a problem with the language the first time I saw it, but I kept watching it..."

therefore the overall morality of the nation drops another notch.

Incrementalism - WAKE UP! The proverbial frog in the pot of water - soon the nation will be dead.

[Modernman]

What about a fair representation of the contribution of the Vietnamese to the American West?

Well, if we're talking about blacks, something like one third of all cowboys were black.

[Non-Sequitur]

bump

[usadave]

Here's an article that talks about the cussing on the show Deadwood:

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/n_10191/

[Brian Mosely]

And for those of you keeping count...

[The KG9 Kid]

The 'F' word goes back to at least the 1500s in printed literature, but the history of it's origins are only legend. Shakespeare's contemporaries such as Ben Jonson used that word and much worse in their bawdy theatre plays.

The word itself must go back even earlier.

[Varda]

"something like one third of all cowboys were black"

This doesn't seem plausible. Do you have a source for this?

[olde north church]

The origin of the "f" word does go to the Middle Dutch "fokken" to breed sheep.
As far as the "coarsening of the culture" is concerned, it's quite ridiculous. We are living in the shadows of residual Victorianism. Actually, under the interpretation of Victorianism. I am using the euphemism "f" word out of respect for my fellow FReepers not out of any problem I have using a word.
Profanity to me is Chris Lehane, the current incarnation of Virginia Hill (google just for kicks) not being slammed in the head with a baseball bat by any citizen of this great nation seeing that scumbag.
Michael Moore is profane. Barbara Streisand is profane.
Getting the picture?

[Modernman]

Re: black cowboys:

http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/bawmus.htm

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/06/18/BAGFP780P61.DTL