Which westerns btw? The older ones (sudden etc) had lots of that, not so much the newer ones
And try a lot of the earlier (#250 and before) tabor evans "longarm" books -- srs (blackberry) -----Original Message----- From: Vinit Bhansali <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 11:15:18 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [silk] Sociolinguistic query Been reading to many westerns. Yellow bellied skunk? I think it's lost it's menacing tone over the last century. Pity! But back to the future used various versions of it, including the (in_famous "you chicken?" On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]>wrote: > the scatological ones? asshole, shithead etc > > --srs (iPad) > > On 14-Apr-2012, at 10:15, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Picking up on one of the conversational threads from yesterday's meetup: > > > > Can people here provide examples of strong curse/swear words in any > > language (i.e, these mean something beyond just punctuation or verbal > > tics) that DO NOT involve female relatives? Extra bonus point if they > > also DO NOT involve sexual acts of varying degrees of improbability. > > > > Udhay > > -- > > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) > > > >
