Nasty, Nasty, Nasty!
Lingua Franca 2016-10-30
Summary:
Brocken spectre over Glenridding
Oh, that nasty woman. Wait – isn’t Halloween about nasty women? A 1990 film released in English as The Nasty Girl was originally titled Das schreckliche Mädchen – schrecklich here means something like awful or terrible, but it can also mean horrible in the Halloween-y sense.
Nasty is rich with definitions. The Oxford English Dictionary dates nasty to the late 14th century and meaning filthy or dirty. Like a perfume with complex notes, nasty can also mean “offens...