Comments on: Euphemisms

By: Lupercus

Lupercus — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 02:52:36 +0000

Ah, Sexual terminology. Beatifull topic and one that I’m so absolutely fond of. Unfortunately the English language (and specifically the American variety) has been so prudishly pruned of its most colorful expressions that it has become basically barren (yes, yes, I know; infertile, bereft of reproductive capability, etc, etc.) of possibilities to clearly express oneself other than in what I call: ‘Marketing-Speak’. Needless to say that I have a dim view on marketing, which I consider the root of all evil, and specifically where it applies it comes to sexual activities and/or proclivities. Middle-English was much richer and allowed for a much more accurate nuance in verbal sexual expression. The current Friesians know a thing or two about that. The Friesian language essentially is literally Middle-English, be it locally pronounced in Dutch fashion. i.e. as if being plagued by a horrid respiratory affliction. The Dutch have a National dictionary and theraurus that covers the normal/formal use of the Dutch language, but aside from that they also have a tome that is at least twice its size that covers the ‘less than formal’ aspects of the language. This part of the language is referred to as ‘Bargoens’ which roughly translates as ‘Spoken on Barges, or better still: Spoken around those who deal with anything related to barges, boats, ships, harbours, keys, kayes, jetties, brothels, bars, bodega’s, whores, mistresses, courtisans, buddies, spouses, blow-up dolls, etc,etc. You get the drift, I wager to guess.
Oh, and don’t even get me started on the Flemish (Belgians who speak Flemish, which in my book is the highest form of Dutch although the Belgians would most vehemently deny that.
So basically there is no real point to this comment, other than to express the desire that English would once again embrace richness of that what ‘The Bard’ (For the uneducated; This would be Shakespeare.) so richly applied to his prose as well as his poetry. After all, this is what sex is all about; The poetry of distinctly different bodies in service to mutual admiration and gratification. (Besides the obvious reproductive side, that is, but we don’t want to get off on that tangent, now do we?)

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