Re: OT: Slang, curses and vulgarities

Hi!

Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...> writes:
>...
> you "fucked" becomes the object. This is not the case in most other ways
> of saying you slept with someone:
>
> to sleep with
> to have sex with
> etc
>
> 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".
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. :-)

**Henrik

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