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Although legend persists that the Hays Office fined producer David O. Selznick $5,000 (~$109,522 in 2023) for using the word "damn", in fact the MPPDA board passed an amendment to the Production Code a month and a half before the film's release, on November 1, 1939, that allowed use of the words "hell" or "damn" when their use "shall be ...
In Indian English, there is an incorrect etymology connecting "I don't give a damn" with the dam, a 16th-century copper coin. Salman Rushdie , in a 1985 essay on the dictionary of Anglo-Indian terms Hobson-Jobson , ends with this: " ' Frankly, my dear, I don't give a small copper coin weighing one tolah , eight mashas and seven surkhs, being ...
Thus the word bloody can become blooming, or ruddy. [3] Alliterative minced oaths such as darn for damn allow a speaker to begin to say the prohibited word and then change to a more acceptable expression. [4] In rhyming slang, rhyming euphemisms are often truncated so that the rhyme is eliminated; prick became Hampton Wick and then simply Hampton.
Notably, no word for sexual intercourse is commonly used in invectives, unlike many other languages (e.g., English fuck, Spanish joder, Mandarin cào / 肏/操). [1] However, calques of English fuck using knull (noun), knulla (verb) do occur; this comes across as more offensive than fuck does in English.
Eric Trump reckons Prince Harry need not worry about his US visa debacle — because no one in America “gives a damn” about him. The ex-president’s second son, 40, had some scathing remarks ...
Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...
Michelle Obama is every Black woman who wanted to say ‘no’ and not give a damn afterward. Natasha S. Alford. January 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM.
A jury consisting of 1,500 film artists, critics, and historians selected "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn", spoken by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in the 1939 American Civil War epic Gone with the Wind, as the most memorable American movie quotation of all time.