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very_improbable1) If it were 1929, and you were British, and you wanted to call someone a fuckup, what would you actually say?
2) If you were Harriet Vane, and you wanted to say "piss off", what would you actually say?
(Neither of these answers has to be DELICATE language, as though grown-up people who work in the liberal arts and live together in highly irregular fashion would never actually use a bad word in each other's presence whatever the era--they just have to belong to the proper, you know, idiom.)
2) If you were Harriet Vane, and you wanted to say "piss off", what would you actually say?
(Neither of these answers has to be DELICATE language, as though grown-up people who work in the liberal arts and live together in highly irregular fashion would never actually use a bad word in each other's presence whatever the era--they just have to belong to the proper, you know, idiom.)
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Re: Basically, PB is an asshole.
Date: 2007-10-28 08:44 am (UTC)(I'm still annoyed at the 1920s for not having invented the word "groupie" yet. --Oh, hell, maybe they didn't even say FAN. *checks* No, it's all right. Whew.)