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Re: OT: Slang, curses and vulgarities

From:Steven Williams <feurieaux@...>
Date:Monday, January 31, 2005, 0:07
 --- Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...>
wrote:
> And there is really a language where there are no > offensive words?
There's one: USAian English, Washington dialect. Though it can be argued that any utterance in that dialect is guaranteed to offend :).
> I don't think that *always* swallowing anger is that > good, psychologically. One should not explode > because of nothing, that's clear. But concerning > myself, at some point, I cannot keep quiet anymore > after having been annoyed by the same person over > and over.
Ha! If you don't mind me making this observation, I've noticed that Germans are considerably less restrained with their opinions than Americans, which is why I love the Germans so much--they're so wonderfully honest. I love this thread; profanity is so awesome :). ___________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - Jetzt mit 250MB Speicher kostenlos - Hier anmelden: http://mail.yahoo.de