Date:  Fri, 28 Apr 1995 11:54:06 GMT+1200

From:  Tim Behrend <t.behrend[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AUCKLAND.AC.NZ>

Subject: Re: Bounced Mail



>     Reply to:  RE>>Anodyne Expletives and TV police dramas

>

> Tim, what does the Hill Street Blues cop's Jewishness have to do with his use

> of euphemistic epithets?

>

> --------------------------------------



The passage refered to is the following:



> seven (?) outlawed words. There was one character in particular,

> Belcher (Belker?) -- the short, inarticulate, onion-eating, Jewish

> cop who growled as often as he spoke -- who came out with these and

> many other relatively euphemistic epithets. Andy Cszypowitz (?) of





Natalie, Nothing in particular -- just like his height, the degree

of his articulateness, his eating habits, his profession, and his

grunting. I was drawing on my mental image of the character to

identify him to readers. His ethnicity stands out as part of his

identity. Why do you ask?



Tim Behrend