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Don't even get started with Tintin.
I don't think Tintin is publishing anything today... Or recently. Not anything new, anyways.
Both boomer and gen-z pearlclutchers seem to be equally oblivious in their own ways to the fact that language changes.
language use is gay.
no homo.
Pretty sure 75 years is prior to the other three existing, so Thomas & Friends has technically gone longer without dropping an N-bomb.
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Context: https://www.scribd.com/document/899239966/Henry-the-Green-Engine-1951-Scanned-by-ThatERTLGuy#page=64 page 60 of the book, 64 of the document.
Written version in case someone doesn't want to click on random links:
The Guard's flag waved, his whistle blew, and they were off. Soon in the distance they saw the bridge. There were the boys and they all had stones. "Are you ready, Henry?" said this Driver. "Sneeze hard when I tell you." "Now!" he said, and turned the handle. "Atisha Atisha Atishooooooh!" Smoke and steam and ashes spouted from his funnel. They went all over the bridge, and all over the boys who ran away as black as ####.
fuck censorship. historical context is important when referencing historical facts. society must be reminded of why language like this is no longer acceptable in order to keep it unacceptable, lest we forget.
Isn't it "lest"? Not a native speaker so I don't really know.
huh, so it is.
I always thought it was spelled the same just said differently similar to read(red) and read(reed).
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he doesn't even look sorry
Henry wasn't sorry, it was on purpose. He was celebrated. I have read the entirety of The Railway Series to my daughter twice (I do substitute in "coal" for the aforementioned slur). There is some crazy shit in there. Engine body horror.
"Hey baby, wanna hear a slur?"
"shitwhistle" (it's a slur among sentient trains)
You hear that, Bobandy? That shrill sound in the distance? That's a shitwhistle heralding the arrival of the shit train. Carrying countless shitcars each filled with tons and tons of shitcargo. Should be here any moment, Bobandy, but first a little drinky poo!
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