On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]>wrote:
> ** > 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 > -- > I read only Lousi L'amour. Are you suggesting I should try the "Longarm" books with the current context of finding good swear words? LOL - Vinit > srs (blackberry) > ------------------------------ > *From: * Vinit Bhansali <[email protected]> > *Sender: * [email protected] > *Date: *Sat, 14 Apr 2012 11:15:18 +0530 > *To: *<[email protected]> > *ReplyTo: * [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)) >> > >> >> >
