[lit-ideas] Re: Auseinandersetzung
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On 18 Dec 2015, at 22:43, david ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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This is as good a moment as any to share with the list a new discovery, John
S. Farmer and W.E. Henley, “Slang and its Analogues Past and
Present…[snip]…with synonyms in English, French, German, Italian, etc.” What
a wonderful idea, cross-cultural comparisons long before the term was in
vogue!
List members should need no more than David’s recommendation in order to search
out this item immediately; yet in order to encourage those who hesitate, I
offer this gem (which has enhanced my vocabulary with TWO phrases):
BY THE EVER-LIVING JUMPING
MOSES! intj. phr. An effective
ejaculation and moral waste-
pipe for interior passion or
wrath is seen in the exclama-
tion, BY THE EVER-LIVING JUMP-
ING MOSES ! a harmless phrase,
that for its length expends a
considerable quantity of fiery
anger.
https://archive.org/details/slangitsanalogue01farmuoft
Chris Bruce,
searching for yet more material with which to give
his 'moral waste-pipe' a good sluicing down, in
Kiel, Germany
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