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Therefore, new obscene words will have to be invented to replace them.

I suggest "French". It could be pretty much a drop-in replacement. "That mother-frencher is so frenching stupid." "French you, you french-hole." And so forth.

22 posted on 04/12/2005 10:22:57 AM PDT by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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To: general_re

You got a frenching problem?


27 posted on 04/12/2005 10:25:56 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: general_re

It's interesting you say that. Most of the barnyard, sexual, and body part swear words are the ones that come from German origin. The words of French origin are the ones that are considered polite. Sexual intercourse, derriere, manure - all French. I'll let the rest of you think up the German replacements.

So at its hearts, the ban on these words is a racist assessment that the Germans are too course and crude in their language to be used in polite company.


30 posted on 04/12/2005 10:27:04 AM PDT by mongrel
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To: general_re

> I suggest "French".

Tried that myself, actually. Back in 2003, when that silly "Freedom Fries" thing came up, my response was not to remove France from vocabulary, but to *add* it. "I had to go to the frenchroom and take a chirac, but there wasn't a roll of francepaper."

But to be truly effective, a good expletive has to *sound* harsh. And French... just doesn't.


32 posted on 04/12/2005 10:29:00 AM PDT by orionblamblam ("You're the poster boy for what ID would turn out if it were taught in our schools." VadeRetro)
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