At 12:42 PM -0400 9/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 9/27/2006 11:55:16 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You're obviously not a Victorian.
Neither are the *Americans* in "Deadwood". :-P
"Victorian" values and culture were not limited to the UK or even the
British empire, and the term is not unreasonably applied to the
entire Anglophone world for the relevant period, whether under the
rule of Victoria or not, especially when discussing such things as
social mores (and, of course, houses -- I'm not sure there are any
Victorian houses in the UK, in the sense of the particular housing
design style known as Victorian, but there are tons in the US).
And, of course, the evidence cited to support the Victorian comment
were clearly American in origin -- so whether you call the period
"Victorian" or not, the point that in that period even in the
American West they didn't normally cuss, even in whore houses,
stands. (Our modern ideas about cussing are, like everything else in
our culture, modern, and there is no particular reason to expect the
attitudes toward and practice of cussing to have been the same in the
past as it is now.)
Sharon
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