Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:22:10 -0500
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fw: new google literature tool
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On 12/18/2010 3:50 PM, Mike B. wrote:

>  On 12/18/2010 3:39 AM, ronkean at juno.com wrote:
>
> > In 500 Billion Words, a New Window on Culture
> >
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/books/17words.html
> >
> > By PATRICIA COHEN
>
>  Wow! And just to prove that people never change, the first search I
>  put in was for "fuck". Interesting result too. Especially if you
>  extend the time back to 1500.
>
>  Second search was on George Carlin's "Seven Words". Very quick
>  response. I wonder if I wasn't the first to ask, so it's in the
>  cache? ;-)
>
>  In general, it looks like there was a long period of language
>  repression from about 1725 until 1950. I wonder what that correlates
>  with? Newspapers and publishing houses? Ending with TV and the Baby
>  Boomers?

Are you serious?  Are you unaware of the censorship which prevailed in
this country until the LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER Supreme Court decision?
The post office did not allow words like "fuck" to be used in anything
which went through the mails.   Customs seized books (like Henry
Miller's) published (in English) in France.  Etc.

--Ted White