Fossil Poetry

[peteryoung]

Would You Please Fucking Stop? Ursula Le Guin has a rant on unimaginative profanity. (thanx nwhyte)

Makes me wish I'd hung on to my copy of Tony White's science fictional Charlie Uncle Norfolk Tango, linguistically colourful in the extreme, and now also extremely rare.

Comments

[dan-golem.livejournal.com]

There should be some kind of society for the protection of curses, now that the vocabulary is shrinking to two words. How about the Federation for the Encouragement of Cursing Knowledge?