Quote: Originally posted by PHILOU Zrealone  |
Don J.H.-The WiZard is In,
How comes you know french?
Now and there you use familiar expressions, typical of a french speaking person/french educated person... |
Moi? Parler francis comme une vache enragée comes to mind.
The problem with this is that like magic — when it is explained
it is not magic anymore.
I was not put on God's Green Earth to be a mathematician
or to speak a foreign language. I was put here to be well read.
Therefore I shelve —
The Anchor Book of French and The AB of Latin Quotations.
The Guinness Book of Poisonous Quotes
The Phrase Droppers Handbook
Affronts, Insults & Indignities
I Always Look Up the Word "E-gre-gious" : A Vocabulary Book
for People Who Don't Need One
The Monstrous Regiment : A Book of Aphorisms
An Uncommon Scold : ... Uttered by History's Most Witty & Wicked
Woman
Couple of dozen others.
I own a complete run of Maledicata : The International Journal
of Verbal Aggression, to which I was a minor contributor.
I am saving this for a rainy day —
Mais non, c'est comme le petit Jesus en culotte de velours.
djh
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August 2007
Rhymes with Witch.
NY City Councilwomen Darlene Mealy had introduced a measure (in the City
Council) against the word, saying it creates “a paradigm of shame and indignity”
for all women.
While I am unwilling to comment of the utility/social engineering value of this
measure, I would suggest that the “B” word is not the only one that “creates a
paradigm of shame and indignity for all women.” Therefore I suggest adding (in
alphabetical order) to her measure :-- Amazon, battle-ax, bimbo, bitch, broad,
hussy, chick, concubine, coquette, courtesan, a word that in middle English
original meant an empty or hollow space frequently preceded by the adjective
“dumb”, fishwife, flirt, fury, hag, harlot, harpy, hoyden, hussy, jade, maenad,
minx, mistress, randy, scold, seductress, shrew, siren, slag (British) slattern, slut,
snip, sorceress, strumpet, tart, tease, temptress, termagant, tramp, trifler, trollop,
vamp, virago, vixen, wench and whore.
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