Welcome back. We may have to stay home and stay still, but through t...Tracing the history of swearing from ancient Anglo-Saxon traditions and those of the Middle Ages, through Shakespeare, the Enlightenment and the Victorians, to the Lady Chatterley trial and various current trends, Geoffrey Hughes explores a fascinating, little discussed yet irrespressible part of our linguistic heritage. Will one be perfectly in order in showing one's nakedness and yet obscene, for instance, if one develops a rational argument? hide this ad. The author often goes off on tangents occasionally and sometimes forgets to go back to his previous points, which is a bitI enjoyed this book, it was full of insights, information, and punctuated by humorous bits. Focuses on British swearing, understandably, but also gives some attention to American and Australian swearing, too. Pub Trivia; Special Events; Become a Host; Pub Owners; Party App × Entertainment Quiz / Science Fiction Swearing Random Entertainment or Book Quiz Can you name the source of the sci-fi swear words? Because in the European version, there’s no laundry room.Well, they literally changed the laundry room to a generic cave in the PAL version. checked this out from widener library, but i'd like to own this book and be able to come back to it.All you need to know about blasphemy, the origins of swear words and the most popular bad language to cause the most offence at any time down the centuries. And that's sad, but I think I'll have to put this one aside and move on to something more fun and non-making-my-eyes-feel-like-they're-about-to-melt-out-of-my-head.
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Used this for an undergraduate course that attempted to interrogate the concept of a pure standard language. You see, at Whirlpool Island, you eventually reach a cave with a washing machine in it. It also looks at the German influence, middle English swearing, swearing during the reformation and the renaissance, Victorian attitudes, sexuality in searing and modern day swear words. 12,177 PLAYS. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. I had to skip parts of the book as it went into all sorts of random olden day swearing and lots of references to Shakespearean swearing and oath taking but it was very eye opening in places and gave the origin of certain swear words which was interesting (fuck – fornication under the consent of the king because plague had reduced the population so much that the king wanted to encourage reproduction, cockney rhyming slang – Brighton pier – quRelatively interesting book about swearing in England. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of What Geoffrey Hughes has given us here is a history of this human activity in the English language, from its Anglo-Saxon roots to the mid to late 20th Century.Just an absolutely fascinating history of swearing in the English language, starting with Beowulf and ending with the most recent taboos around race and sex.
Instead, it’s a normal person’s conversation that’s been raised in pitch, drastically sped up and reversed. The book has several charts and lists, which are rarely referenced in the text, and when they are go on for too long to be reasonable examples. Although this quote (from a 1970 review) does seem to predict the internet era rather well: "What one wonders now is where the taboo will reassert itself in Western civilization, if it has really been removed from sex. Yeah, I really wanted to learn more about the history of swearing but sadly I just couldn't wade through any more of this.
Maybe Mortal Heart or My Real Children or just anything without big linguistic terms that I don't really understand.I enjoyed this book, it was full of insights, information, and punctuated by humorous bits. With this, revised, edition being from 1998, it fails to cover the developments of the last 20 years or so, particularly since internet usage became common, and this does somewhat skew the predictions in the conclusion.
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Are you a fresh-faced young swearer, or the King of All Swearing? So, like the guy in this video:You reverse all these changes only to find that the speaker is actually saying:It’s just so utterly random, and it honestly sounds like the developers just recorded some random chit chat in the Nintendo of America cafeteria and stuck it on the disc as a dare.
"It would appear that swearing and/or the use of oaths is a universal human constant regardless of language, culture, social mores, etc. When they’re doing this, it sounds like they’re saying complete gibberish.
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Used this for an undergraduate course that attempted to interrogate the concept of a pure standard language. You see, at Whirlpool Island, you eventually reach a cave with a washing machine in it. It also looks at the German influence, middle English swearing, swearing during the reformation and the renaissance, Victorian attitudes, sexuality in searing and modern day swear words. 12,177 PLAYS. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. I had to skip parts of the book as it went into all sorts of random olden day swearing and lots of references to Shakespearean swearing and oath taking but it was very eye opening in places and gave the origin of certain swear words which was interesting (fuck – fornication under the consent of the king because plague had reduced the population so much that the king wanted to encourage reproduction, cockney rhyming slang – Brighton pier – quRelatively interesting book about swearing in England. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of What Geoffrey Hughes has given us here is a history of this human activity in the English language, from its Anglo-Saxon roots to the mid to late 20th Century.Just an absolutely fascinating history of swearing in the English language, starting with Beowulf and ending with the most recent taboos around race and sex.
Instead, it’s a normal person’s conversation that’s been raised in pitch, drastically sped up and reversed. The book has several charts and lists, which are rarely referenced in the text, and when they are go on for too long to be reasonable examples. Although this quote (from a 1970 review) does seem to predict the internet era rather well: "What one wonders now is where the taboo will reassert itself in Western civilization, if it has really been removed from sex. Yeah, I really wanted to learn more about the history of swearing but sadly I just couldn't wade through any more of this.
Maybe Mortal Heart or My Real Children or just anything without big linguistic terms that I don't really understand.I enjoyed this book, it was full of insights, information, and punctuated by humorous bits. With this, revised, edition being from 1998, it fails to cover the developments of the last 20 years or so, particularly since internet usage became common, and this does somewhat skew the predictions in the conclusion.
We’ve covered the identity of Mario’s father, as found on the side of a baking tin. Swearing in English book.
Are you a fresh-faced young swearer, or the King of All Swearing? So, like the guy in this video:You reverse all these changes only to find that the speaker is actually saying:It’s just so utterly random, and it honestly sounds like the developers just recorded some random chit chat in the Nintendo of America cafeteria and stuck it on the disc as a dare.
"It would appear that swearing and/or the use of oaths is a universal human constant regardless of language, culture, social mores, etc. When they’re doing this, it sounds like they’re saying complete gibberish.