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Obscenity Rap
Topic: Arts 1:46 pm EDT, Sep 22, 2007

This 2004 essay about "Deadwood" has popped up again, owing to a chapter in Steven Pinker's new book (2), and the recent Emmy awards show.

The takeaway is that wars are a reliable source of linguistic innovation.

Every age swears differently from the last one -- it's as if we have to up the ante every generation or so.

The words those "Deadwood" characters would actually have used had religious overtones rather than sexual or scatalogical ones.

I miss Deadwood.

PNSFW.

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