Opus Maledictorum: Insults, Curses, Slurs, and other Bad Words from Around the World

Culled from 20 years of Maledicta--"the journal the world swears by"--this compendium of colorful language in all its forms takes a linguistic look at "dirty words". Offering a clever mixture of both... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569248362
• ISBN13: 9781569248362
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 586 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

naughty naughty

a delightful, insightful book that will make you marvel and giggle. Literary enthusiasts and Howard Stern fans are both treated to lively stories, definitions and explorations of meanings that are richly entertaining. Many will not like it because it contains "equal opportunity offender" jokes that are not exactly politically correct. Get over it.This work is sardonic and witty and entirely refreshing in its unrepentant iconoclasm.The book is funny and educational and a worthy edition to the individualist's library.

A scholarly work on a much neglected subject.

This is not a humor book. It is not a salacious book about dirty jokes. Instead, it is a serious work dealing with a subject about which people normally are uncomfortable: swearing and cursing (there is a difference!). In a well-selected collection of articles from scholars and well-informed lay persons, this book contains excellent examples of verbal agression from around the world.