Re: OT: Slang, curses and vulgarities
| From: | Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 29, 2005, 18:13 |
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On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:19:38 +0100, Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
wrote:
>If you just learn random words and fling them around with gusto,
>you'll use one that's too weak to express your obvious emotion and
>look funny, or one that's too strong than is warranted and be even
>ruder than you intended, or one that's incongruous for a given
>situation.
Heh, yes.
>OTOH, it depends on where you draw the line; for example, I don't
>consider "Mist" as cursing. But even so, I might have days where I'm
>"clean".
I counted "Mist" as well. Aside from a few Sch***e's per day, I'd be quite
clean either ;)
Carsten