Mine, either (well, at least not the one I knew...I think that man was *born* in a 3-piece suit!) I haven't seen any of these Deadwood episodes, so I'm not exactly sure which phrases y'all are trying to skate genteelly around, but it occurs to me that maybe, in what seems to have been a concerted effort for nitty-gritty realism, that the writers/people in charge went with words that would convey to a modern audience what the swear words from back then actually would have been? Almost like a translation? --Sue, taking a break from garden-digging and bulb planting...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 1:41 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Deadwood > Nor my grandfather :) (I NEVER heard either of them ever say a single swear word, let alone the two 'popular' ones in this show), but you've got to remember this town was founded by a lot of people who were NOT the quality of folk who were raised in the best of surroundings and mostly uneducated and to them it was just what they grew up with > > A site of possible interest: > > http://www.wordorigins.org > > There are some things I surely don't want to be to accurate about in my re-enacting! > > kelly grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't have an objection to foul language, it has it's place, it was the > word they were using I had a problem with...I highly doubt certian words > were used that frequently at that time! > > I could be wrong, but I doubt my grandfather would have used some of those > words at any point in his life. > > Kelly > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sylvia Rognstad" > To: "Historical Costume" > Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 3:57 PM > Subject: Re: [h-cost] Deadwood > > > > --------------------------------- > Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr. We'll help. Yahoo! Small Business. > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
