Camera Trap Codger: Vile epithets and the dangers of learning foreign language: "Vile epithets and the dangers of learning foreign language 'The men of mixed blood jabbered in French, Cree, and Chipewyan mainly, but when they wanted to swear, they felt the inadequacy of these mellifluous or lisping tongues, and fell back on virile Saxon, whose tang, projectivity, and vile epithet evidently supplied a long felt want in the Great Lone Land of the Dog and Canoe.' The Arctic Prairies, 1911, Ernest Thompson Seton"
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Camera Trap Codger: Vile epithets and the dangers of learning foreign language
Posted by Ron Edmonds at Saturday, October 27, 2007
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