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[–] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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    Remember 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    TIL "bowdlerize" https://www.englishgrammar.org/bowdlerize-means-sanitize-book/

    what a prude, that Thomas Bowdler. Shakespeare was too spicy for him!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    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.

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