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grue@lemmy.world 12 hours agoRemember this scene in Ratatouille where Colette talks about the sordid pasts of the kitchen staff? Now consider that that was bowdlerized for a kids’ movie, compared to reality.
Comment on Skill Issue 😓
grue@lemmy.world 12 hours agoRemember this scene in Ratatouille where Colette talks about the sordid pasts of the kitchen staff? Now consider that that was bowdlerized for a kids’ movie, compared to reality.
stopdropandprole@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
TIL “bowdlerize” englishgrammar.org/bowdlerize-means-sanitize-book…
what a prude, that Thomas Bowdler. Shakespeare was too spicy for him!
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Shakespeare’s work has a lot of dirty jokes, they’re just made with terminology modern English speakers don’t know or don’t realize was dirty back then.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
And some of his lines are overt even to people today, like “What, with my tongue in your tail?” or when he uses a character named Bottom to make a lot of double entendres.