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It is unlike Dr. Aman to cloak his subject—dirty language—under the euphemism “verbal aggression”: he and most of the authors of the articles appearing in Maledicta let it all hang out; some, however, tuck it away neatly and write under a pseudonym.
To quote in part from what may be termed its “statement of purpose,” “ Maledicta specializes in uncensored studies and glossaries of offensive and negatively valued words and expressions, from all languages and cultures, past and present.”
It is curious, though, to find so few references in the Bibliography to articles that have appeared in, for instance, Maledicta , the main repository of scatological analysis, and to such articles as Allen Walker Read's “You Know What,” in American Speech (reprinted in VERBATIM II, 3) and Sidney Landau's “ sexual intercourse in American College Dictionaries” [I, 1].
Maledicta is instructive, funny, gross, informative, vulgar, impolite, and sometimes well written.
Since 1977, Dr. Reinhold Aman has been publishing Maledicta , subtitled The International Journal of Verbal Aggression , from his bivouac in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
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