Vernacular check

[starrkers]

If I were to say someone used "blue language", what would that mean to you?

 

[MarshAlien]

If I were to say someone used "blue language", what would that mean to you?

As in "swore a blue streak?" You know, sailor language. Does that help?

 

[Trombonus]

Someone wrote all their text in blue font?

 

[neonlyte]

If I were to say someone used "blue language", what would that mean to you?

That's disgusting!

Really, bawdy jokes, sexist humour, lots of swearing and the naming of 'private bits'

 

[Guest]

"Blue language" can run the gamut from out-and-out profanity, to vulgarity, to language that isn't "fit for mixed company" as they used to say.

It was still in use, if not in vogue, through the 60's and into the very early seventies.

 

[3113]

I'd assume that the language was raunchy.

 

[3113]

Someone wrote all their text in blue font?

Pats Trom on the head. There's a good boy. Have some cookies and milk.

 

[starrkers]

Wonderful! Just the meaning I hoped it conveyed.

 

[Trombonus]

Pats Trom on the head. There's a good boy. Have some cookies and milk.

SWEET!

 

[Boxlicker101]

If I were to say someone used "blue language", what would that mean to you?

Used a lot of profanity, as in "turned the air blue". I don't know where the expression comes from, unless it has something to do with editors using blue pencils to delete said profanities from manuscripts. I don't think it has anything to do with the term "bluenose".

 

[kendo1]

Worse than colourful language.

Is there red, pink or green language?

 

[NoJo]

I don't know where the expression comes from, unless it has something to do with editors using blue pencils to delete said profanities from manuscripts.

That has a true ring to it.

Max Miller, a music-hall comedian in Britain in the 1940's famous for his risque humour, is supposed to have coined the term. He used to keep his dirty jokes in a blue notebook. The term "blue humour" was certainly synonymous with Max Miller here in the post-war years.

Check this out: http://www.maxmiller.org/jokes5.htm

 

[Boxlicker101]

Worse than colourful language.

Is there red, pink or green language?

I suppose red language would be espousing Communism and green language would be calling for recycling, solar power, etc. I don't know about pink language, unless it has to do with baby girls.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Some ancient Pogo Possum cartoon; The others want Pogo to swear to something. He won't do it, (Pogo isn't the swearing type by any means) until someone tromps on his foot, and someone else swipes off his hat. He responds with a speech balloon full of Walt Kelly-style profanity that leaves everyone cowering in the corners of the panel.

Afterwards, one of his friends says; "My, you is quite cussable today! The very air was blued!" and Pogo says; "I blew as hard as I could."

 

[gauchecritic]

Porn vids are often called 'blueys' in this neck of the woods.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Some ancient Pogo Possum cartoon; The others want Pogo to swear to something. He won't do it, (Pogo isn't the swearing type by any means) until someone tromps on his foot, and someone else swipes off his hat. He responds with a speech balloon full of Walt Kelly-style profanity that leaves everyone cowering in the corners of the panel.

Afterwards, one of his friends says; "My, you is quite cussable today! The very air was blued!" and Pogo says; "I blew as hard as I could."

What do you mean, "ancient"? I remember that strip from my youth. Oh. Yeah. OK, ancient.

I don't remember what he was swearing to, though. It had nothing to do with running for president in 1952, though.

I wish I still had my "I Go Pogo" pin from then.

 

[Stella_Omega]

What do you mean, "ancient"? I remember that strip from my youth. Oh. Yeah. OK, ancient.

I don't remember what he was swearing to, though. It had nothing to do with running for president in 1952, though.

I wish I still had my "I Go Pogo" pin from then.

Ancient to a lot of these shirttail sprats, anyways

When I think of the entire set of books that my dad let me and my sister read to SHREDS! Pogo informed my childhood. But the books were destroyed.

 

[kimbalee]

hmmmm... learned something new today. Never heard of it.

 

[damppanties]

Porn vids are often called 'blueys' in this neck of the woods.

Blue films. *nods*

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

F-bombs.

 

[starrkers]

Right then. So this par would make perfect sense?

This man was rich, tall, and ugly. In fact he was more than ugly, he was <i>ugly</i>. But he was also more than rich, he was obscenely rich and along with tall he was well built, fit and strong. But, damn, he was <i>ugly</i>. And it wasn’t just his features that were ugly; his language was blue, so blue folks reckoned it had stained his beard as it spewed from his mouth. This had earned him a nickname – Bluebeard.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Right then. So this par would make perfect sense?

Yes, the para makes sense.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Not onl;y does it make sense, but it's fun to read

 

[starrkers]

Thanks Stella.

Let's hope I can keep it up for the whole story