Re: OT: Slang, curses and vulgarities

>Hi!
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>Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...> writes:
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>>you "fucked" becomes the object. This is not the case in most other ways
>>of saying you slept with someone:
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>>to sleep with
>>to have sex with
>>etc
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>>whereas with vulgar words like "fuck" and "shag", the person you slept
>>with is demoted in animacy from being a kind of co-actor in the polite
>>terms, to being a passive recipient of your "fucking".
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>But can't you say: 'Hey, let's fuck!'  Or 'We fucked -- t'was great.'
>By your definition, this would not be offensive at all. :-)
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I didn't say it was the only reason. Fuck always has slightly rude
connotations, but I think that it contributes to the reason why it
sounds so rude.... I'd also say that the second of your examples does
not seem offensive to me, or at least not really. Apart from the fact
that it's really bad taste to mention having sex with someone to your
mates... whereas with the first, if I substitute "have sex" instead,
"hey, let's have sex!" isn't really that much better (well, if said to
someone you don't know). Both seem rude and forward, but since fuck is
de facto a swear word, whereas have sex isn't, "let's fuck" sounds even
more agressive than the swear word-less alternative.