Comments on: Obscenity vs. Profanity vs. Vulgarity: What’s the Difference? http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/23102 Feel Smart Again Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Tim http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/23102/comment-page-1#comment-131219 Tim Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:49:00 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/23102#comment-131219 "Obscene" comes from the Greek theatre phrase "ob skene," or "off stage"-the idea being that all of the violence, etc in Greek theatre took place off stage. “Obscene” comes from the Greek theatre phrase “ob skene,” or “off stage”-the idea being that all of the violence, etc in Greek theatre took place off stage.

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