tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post4596336951817769304..comments2023-10-20T11:17:47.246-04:00Comments on Two Nerdy History Girls: A Father Warns Against the "Depravity" of Valentines, 1805Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-65305459653845302862012-02-18T14:29:12.814-05:002012-02-18T14:29:12.814-05:00Just found your blog - lovely! This post was very ...Just found your blog - lovely! This post was very interesting and I'll have to share!Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17991085128131515835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-9336425395424808252012-02-14T08:22:20.766-05:002012-02-14T08:22:20.766-05:00This line made me LOL: "congratulating my dau...This line made me LOL: "congratulating my daughter on having escaped reading the most horrid obscenity that depravity could invent." Wow, overreact much? :-D<br /><br />The use of the word "inmate" in the third paragraph of the quote is unintentionally ironic in its modern usage... I looked it up <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=inmate&searchmode=none" rel="nofollow">on etymonline</a>:<br /><br />"1580s, 'one allowed to live in a house rented by another' (usually for a consideration), from in 'inside' + mate 'companion.' Sense of 'one confined to an institution' is first attested 1834."Kerihttp://amazingwomeninhistory.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5022318990784415929.post-44227874506955641422012-02-14T07:02:54.871-05:002012-02-14T07:02:54.871-05:00Some game show or something on the radio yesterday...Some game show or something on the radio yesterday mentioned that at one time, law cost of mailing a letter led to many really obscene and pornographic valentines. I thought the date was way past the Regency and not before it, though. Of course, it is just possible that some of the verses that were considered clever and witty in the previous century were now considered bawdy or worse. Some of the verses would make a hardened sinner blush.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com