Macmillan Holdings, LLC. Grammar Girl, Grammar Girl's, QDnow, and Quick and Dirty Tips are all trademarks of Macmillan Holdings, LLC. Grawlixes, maledicta, and more. Karen grammar Don't be prudes!!! http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/swearing-text-comics.aspx?commentid=20547#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/swearing-text-comics.aspx?commentid=20547#Comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:12:31 GMT Thomas Maufer grammar Heard your show via Scott Sigler. I had a bad reaction to your pronunciation of malediction. There is no "male" in "malediction." It's a 4-syllable word, not 3: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/malediction http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/swearing-text-comics.aspx?commentid=17272#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/swearing-text-comics.aspx?commentid=17272#Comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:57:18 GMT Philip grammar Careful about Yosemite Sam. This may not be true, but I've always heard that at least some of his outbursts in some cartoons are actual swear words in another language, usually said to be German. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/swearing-text-comics.aspx?commentid=17185#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/swearing-text-comics.aspx?commentid=17185#Comments Thu, 28 May 2009 01:02:59 GMT Rene grammar I enjoyed the audiobook Global Wording by Charles Hodgson. Thanks for your suggestion! http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/swearing-text-comics.aspx?commentid=17080#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/swearing-text-comics.aspx?commentid=17080#Comments Wed, 20 May 2009 17:47:56 GMT Kris grammar Hey Mignon, I listen to you show every week! I particularly liked this week's episode as my blog began as a result of a media firestorm over the use of the F-word in the headline of an op ed piece in the student newspaper at Colorado State University. Read about that here - http://tiny.cc/kAO8k Another person that I thought of during your podcast was Billy Cosby - flim fram shloshm bloshm Keep up the good work! -Kris Founder - TPG http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/swearing-text-comics.aspx?commentid=17079#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/swearing-text-comics.aspx?commentid=17079#Comments Wed, 20 May 2009 16:39:40 GMT Kara grammar I've always read a string of symbols as Yosemite Sam swearing too. I assumed that everyone read it that way until you said otherwise. You're not alone! http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/swearing-text-comics.aspx?commentid=17057#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/swearing-text-comics.aspx?commentid=17057#Comments Tue, 19 May 2009 21:58:17 GMT Janet grammar My junior high school teacher told me that taking out letters in names of people and towns was used in novels to avoid confusion with real people, or to protect the identity of the real people on whom the character was based. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/swearing-text-comics.aspx?commentid=17055#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/swearing-text-comics.aspx?commentid=17055#Comments Tue, 19 May 2009 17:47:04 GMT Vinod Binn Lal grammar I don't believe in dsmvwlmnt! http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/swearing-text-comics.aspx?commentid=17050#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/swearing-text-comics.aspx?commentid=17050#Comments Tue, 19 May 2009 00:54:51 GMT Teri Greene grammar Robert Anton Wilson sometimes used the names of Supreme Court justices et al. as substitutes for arguably offensive words. "Rehnquist" for penis, "Feinstein" for vagina, etc. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/swearing-text-comics.aspx?commentid=17017#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/swearing-text-comics.aspx?commentid=17017#Comments Sat, 16 May 2009 22:01:51 GMT amonk grammar Interesting!! But please note that "frigging" is not a good substitute for 'The F Word', as it also means "the act of masturbation"....at least to the English. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/swearing-text-comics.aspx?commentid=17010#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/swearing-text-comics.aspx?commentid=17010#Comments Sat, 16 May 2009 13:11:43 GMT Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:12:31 GMT http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/swearing-text-comics.aspx feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Managing Editor) feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Webmaster) en-us