Today’s Mother Goose and Grimm, on a linguistic theme: Aside from the meta character of the strip — the dogs know they are characters in a cartoon — there’s their avoidance of the word bitch, as unsuitable for the strip, because the strip is carried by “family newspapers”, where women and children (notoriously delicate and … Continue reading Levels of taboo language
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