miker noted:
"I gotta laugh at that. "Mother-raper" was a commonly used
phrase in Himes's _Cotton Comes To Harlem_."
That phrase is used throughout the Harlem Cycle. Mother-raper
actually sounds worse to me than what it replaces. Due to the
ubiquity of motherfucker now, it often seems more punctuation
than a curse. Because it's non-standard, I stop to think
about the literal meaning of mother-raper.
I wonder which would get you beat up quicker in a bar.
Mark
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