Re: OT: Slang, curses and vulgarities
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 30, 2005, 15:06 |
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> On 30 Jan 2005, at 5.01 pm, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
> I cannot believe you're likening 'shit' to 'fuck'. In my use and
> experience, it's not much worse than 'stuff'. Obviously it varies in
> intensity...
They're both words you can't say on public broadcast television in the
US. You could, at least pre-Janet-Jackson-Super-Bowl, get away with
"shit", but not "fuck", on daytime non premium cable/satellite TV.
Until relatively recently (the last decade or so), you couldn't say
"ass" or "piss(ed)" on television here, either, but now they're common.
-Marcos