Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/02/02/a-1920s-uk-woman-frames-her-ne.html
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She was simply ahead of her time.
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Sir Clement Bailhache
Pronounced Ball-ache, I’m sure
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I’ve clearly been doing email wrong all these years. “You bloody fucking flaming piss country whores go and fuck your cunt.” is such a great way to start one off.
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It’s amazing how our prejudices cloud our ability to reason. I mean, just look at those criminal, close-set eyes. It’s obvious she’s guilty!
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Given our penchant for weird contractions in order to confound Johnny Foreigner (viz. Cholmondely), it’s probably pronounced ‘Bish’.
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This reminds me of an Shirley Jackson story I read a while ago. https://thepossibilityofevilma.weebly.com/short-story.html
Is anyone else surprised by how immediately comprehensible nearly century-old abuse torrents(from, in my case, the other side of the Atlantic) are?
“You are a character” appears to have become lighter and softer in the intervening years; but even that is distinguishable in context and much of the rest is downright current. Selection bias in what excerpts made it from book to article; or are good slurs too treasured to be subject to the “kids these days and their incomprehensible jive talk” effect and rotated at least once a generation if not several times more frequently?
A girlfriend of mine once described someone as a ‘thrushy cuntbubble’.
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