Not P but Moby-Dick (44)

[Michael Bailey]

https://people.howstuffworks.com/swearing-like-sailor.htm

According to that article, stuff we consider mild now was fighting words.


Concurrence from this article
https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/2019/02/24/swearing-like-sailor/?gf_protect_submission=1




On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 11:54 PM Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Probably a lot of cussin’. (-;
>
> https://youtu.be/WpHfJiFjRxs?si=n6j0NH6cwBjbnSvA
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 8:34 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> From Chapter 54:
>>
>> “At sunrise he summoned all hands; and separating those who had rebelled
>> from those who had taken no part in the mutiny, he told the former that he
>> had a good mind to flog them all round—thought, upon the whole, he would
>> do
>> so—he ought to—justice demanded it; but for the present, considering their
>> timely surrender, he would let them go with a reprimand, which he
>> accordingly administered in the vernacular.
>>
>> What does "in the vernacular" mean here exactly?
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