Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Host you too

According to this awesome article (link courtesy (Language Log) in the Washington Post, Quebequois use exclusively religious swear words like "tablernacle," "chalice" and "host." A professor explains:
"When you get mad, you look for words that attack what represses you," said Louise Lamarre, a Montreal cinematographer who must tread lightly around the language, depending on whether her films are in French or English. "In America, you are so Puritan that the swearing is mostly about sex. Here, since we were repressed so long by the church, people use religious terms."

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