On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 1:56 PM, George Corley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:54 AM, Claude Almansi <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> (1) Don't get alarmed by the "Contains adult language" warning -
>> nothing there you mightn't hear in an average kindergarten courtyard:
>> that's just because of the talibans of all creeds who scour YT to flag
>> videos they think inappropriate.
>
>
> You consider more than 20 instances of "fuck" in its primary (sexual) sense
> to be something you could expect to hear in the average kindergarten?
>  Where did you go to kindergarten?

Ecole enfantine des Cropettes, Geneva, Switzerland, over half a
century ago. However, my daughter's experience at Scuola materna,
Camucia (Arezzo), Italy, a quarter of a century ago, was similar,
though of course, more on the "cazzo" (dick)  than on the "fuck" side.
But in Geneva, back then, we kids regularly used "foutre" as a synonym
of "faire", without realizing what it actually meant. In the
court-yard, of course, not in front of the teachers or of our parents.

In-between anecdote: when my sister was 3 and I 12 and just in middle
school, I had promised my former primary school teacher to give him a
hand with preparing the end of school year exhibition of students'
art. Then my mom asked me to look after my sister M., so I asked the
kindergarten teacher if I could leave her in her class. When I went to
fetch her, the teacher was saying: "Who wants to sing a little song?"
M. raised her hand, then sang Brassens' "J'suis l'pornographe du
phonographe" (<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBe0p13cPxk> with
transcript): we regularly listened to Brassens at home.

The teacher didn't bat an eyelid, let her finish and congratulated her
on having sung in tune. Afterwards, she asked to have a word with me.
"How come your parents didn't register M. for kindergarten next school
year?" "Because she won't be 4 before the end of August," I explained.
She laughed: "Oh, that's OK, it's possible to make an exception if a
child is ready. And M obviously is."

And that's how my sister started school a year earlier...

Have kids gone completely clean-mouthed since?

Best,

Claude