Date:  Fri, 28 Oct 1994 21:00:46 HOE

From:  Alberto RIO <RIOGARAL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]VM1.SDI.UAM.ES>

Subject: The word 'damn'



  Recently I saw a cartoon in the International Herald Tribune about

Cubans refugees and Mr. Clinton which, when translated in Spain ('El Pais'

newspaper, center-left), changed the word 'damn' to a Spanish

'equivalent', a hard word meaning 'solid waste from the bowels'.

Could you tell me whether 'damn' ('dammned', I

guess) is a taboo word and in what degree? In our dictionaries, encyclopaedias,



etc., it doesn't appears as such. Perhaps in Mr. Clinton native Arkansas ...



  Thank you in advance. Yours,

  Alberto RIO                  Fax.: +34 1 397-8599

Servicio de Cartografia, modulo de Geografia   Phone: +34 1 397-3894

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid          e-mail:

Campus de Cantoblanco               riogaral[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]vm1.sdi.uam.es

E-28049 Madrid, Spain               riogaral at emduam11