Thursday, October 04, 2007

Irish expletives, or not

With the hilarious news that the Minister for Defence, Willie O'Dea, got into a fight in a pub in Limerick comes the crucial and poorly understood distinction (outside Ireland) between the 4 letter f-words "feck" and the other one. The former is semi-acceptable and can be printed while the latter is not. Note that Bono's Grammy obscenity case relies on exactly this distinction.

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