Bad words (Re: Some finer points of grammar)

[Jeremy Osner]

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Thomas Vieth wrote:
> 
> At one point Dixon says: "I am no fucking Jesuit". Being no native speaker this
> still somehow struck me as anachronistic, since I always thought that this type
> of expression was fairly contemporary. But I don't know. BTW, "damme" occurs on
> almost every page.
> Thomas
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two points regarding "damme":

At one point in the novel (around page 200, I'm not sure of the exact
location), it is spelled "damn". I can't remember who's speaking there.

I have only seen it bleeped-out once, when Maskelyne is speaking. In the
next sentence he says something on the order of Pardon my French. Maybe
this is reflective of his puritanism?

Jeremy