{"id":10368,"date":"2007-02-02T17:21:01","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T00:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/02\/02\/the-words-that-dare-not-speak-their-name.html"},"modified":"2007-02-02T17:21:01","modified_gmt":"2007-02-03T00:21:01","slug":"the_words_that_dare_not_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/02\/the_words_that_dare_not_s.html","title":{"rendered":"The Words That Dare Not Speak Their Name"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Language Log” meets “Talk of the Nation,” wherein the subject is words that are taboo<\/a> … and which we cannot, therefore, actually say, even to talk about how they are taboo.<\/p>\n

\n

So they prattled about two different N-words, two different F-words, two different C-words, and a K-word (yes, K; try to guess it). At one point John had to ask which F-word he was being asked to talk about. Neil Conan made the ridiculous suggestion that they distinguish between “the F-word” and “the F bomb”, but couldn’t (of course) say which he meant by which. Off went John, and it soon became clear that he was talking about fuck<\/i>. Neil stopped him, and explained that he meant the other one, you know,
\nabout gay men; so they decided they could draw a distinction between the one ending in k<\/i> and the one ending in t<\/i>. John backed up and started out again, this time apparently talking about faggot<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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