Bleeping Expletives – Great article by William Safire explaining exactly what profanities, expletives, vulgarisms, obscenities, execrations, epithets and imprecations are. Fuck, for example, is obscene but is not profane. Gee-whiz is profane because it shows irreverence towards Jesus. An expletive is “a word or phrase to fill up a line” such as “by gum” and as such is not necessarily rude. Fascinating stuff to batter the language police with. via DF
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In June 2000 I started blogging at peteashton.com and 10 years later in June 2010 I decided to stop. Blogging here, that is. I started a clean slate over on I Am Pete Ashton and maintain all manner of other web presences which are all listed here along with my contact details.
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Pete Ashton