Date: Mon, 8 May 1995 10:45:34 EDT

From: "Janet M. Fuller" JMCFULL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UNIVSCVM.BITNET

Subject: Re: Anodyne expletives



. . . and asel. He believed the

latter to be German for ass-hole, although I don't think Germans ever refer

specifically to that orifice.





You have got to be kidding. Germans refer explicitly to everything,

even when others are eating.



I missed the background here, but I believe your 'asel' is

probably from "Esel", which is the German word for donkey.

The German word for ass-hole is "Arschloch", which is

a compound exactly parallel to the English construction.

It is, in Germany anyway, less frequently as an expletive

than in English, is my impression.