Re: OT: Slang, curses and vulgarities
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 29, 2005, 16:35 |
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On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 02:49:32PM +0100, Carsten Becker wrote:
> And, although they are related to one another,
> cursewords may have a different level of vulgarity in
> different languages. In one of the recent English lessons,
> our teacher told us that "sh*t" is considered to be worse
> than "f*ck" in English.
That is definitely not the case in the US. Here, f*ck is considered much the
worse of the two, thought still not as bad as c*nt. I don't know about
Rightpondia; anywhere "bloody" is apparently considered part of that
same group, there's just no telling how they'll think about such things.
:)
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