Comments on: Of Mother-insults and the Ten Legendary Beasts of Baidu /2009/03/13/of-mother-insults-and-the-ten-legendary-beasts-of-baidu/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 By: aaron /2009/03/13/of-mother-insults-and-the-ten-legendary-beasts-of-baidu/comment-page-1/#comment-585357 Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:30:54 +0000 /?p=1712#comment-585357 That Slate article is weird, too, for calling the insult “universal” and then claiming that the first known English printed use of it was a legal document from 1889.

]]> By: Kerim /2009/03/13/of-mother-insults-and-the-ten-legendary-beasts-of-baidu/comment-page-1/#comment-585338 Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:02:34 +0000 /?p=1712#comment-585338 Thanks Kate! (Sorry about the HTML bugs…)

]]> By: Kate /2009/03/13/of-mother-insults-and-the-ten-legendary-beasts-of-baidu/comment-page-1/#comment-585252 Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:57:47 +0000 /?p=1712#comment-585252 Argh, sorry, the link I posted got stripped. Try this:

http://www.indiana.edu/~easc2/resources/working_paper/noframe_9a_oedip.htm

]]> By: Kate /2009/03/13/of-mother-insults-and-the-ten-legendary-beasts-of-baidu/comment-page-1/#comment-585251 Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:56:40 +0000 /?p=1712#comment-585251 There’s a paper on this subject by Youqin Wang, called “Oedipus lex: Some thoughts on swear words and the incest taboo in China and the west.” I could have sworn it was available on-line, but I can’t find it now (it’s late and I’m insomnia-blogging).

Oh wait, here it is

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