Timeline for Why does the protagonist of Asimov's Caves of Steel exclaim 'Jehoshaphat!' instead of 'Jesus!'?
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
4 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 2021 at 1:09 | comment | added | WhatRoughBeast | More generally, the 1950s, when Asimov wrote his early work, was noted for its public puritanism. Bad language was very heavily frowned on, and Asimov was not a Bad Boy of Literature. There were any number of euphemisms for Bad Words. In general, any such word beginning with a "j" stood in for "Jesus", "hard g" for God, "d" for damn, and "f" for fuck. Sexual bad language (obscenity) couldn't be used at all. This all changed in the 60s, as evidenced by the writing of Heinlein pre and post "Stranger in a Strange Land", whose success informed him that he could talk dirty and get away with it. | |
| Sep 12, 2021 at 22:57 | vote | accept | SpiderRico | ||
| Sep 12, 2021 at 10:58 | history | edited | Valorum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 272 characters in body
|
| Sep 12, 2021 at 10:51 | history | answered | Valorum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |