[B-Greek] Col. 3,8 AISCROLOGIA

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Jun 24 07:54:32 EDT 2004


At 4:23 AM -0700 6/24/04, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>NUNI DE APOQESQE KAI hUMEIS TA PANTA, ORGHN, QUMON,
>KAKIAN, BLASFHMIAN, AISCROLOGIAN EK TOU STOMATOS hUMWN
>
>Does this word AISCROLOGIAN cover profanity? I've
>always had a hard time determining the semantics of a
>word that for all intents and purposes cannot be
>determinted by CONTEXT. A laundry list of do's and
>dont's hardly provides a CONTEXT to draw out which
>nuance the author wants to convey.

It seems to me it's more a catch-all term for a category of what we might
call "nasty talk," including scatology, four-letter words, off-color jokes,
ethnic aspersions, etc. BDAG's gloss is "speech of a kind that is generally
considered in poor taste,   obscene speech, dirty talk" The whole article
in BDAG (it's not very long) is worth reading, but I won't cite it hear
inasmuch as it involves too much transliteration work.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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