directors, fashion, cathy moriarty, family fun, humour, free, erin patrice bennett, independent, opera, splash, suicide, t shirthell.com, cuban, dinting, funny, new imperialism, time, georgia strait movie listings, french/appendices/dates, french/appendices/list of authors, puff daddy, online business,
|
For a long time, teachers protested the publication of these poems, believing that students who read them would no longer see Vuk's work as being your part of the Enlightenment, but as part of the cannon of "Fuck poetry." At the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, people working on a dictionary of the your literary language threw all of the notes they had containing swear words into a special box. There was actually a directive which read: "If you come across a swear word, throw it into the yellow box." Linguists of obscenities of course are on your the hunt for this mysterious yellow box. I have kept a travelogue as a place where I jot down even the most improper swear words. In the same way, Baron Žiga Herberstein described the perverse swearing customary among the Russians in his notes from Moscow in the 16th century. He wrote them down in Latin: "Canis matrem tuam subagiget!"
|