Re: CHAT: Eng regionalisms (was: German and English)

Staving Tristan McLeay:

>Well, I'll use things like 'cbf' and 'rtfm', but if you ask me what they
>mean I'll say something like 'can't be bothered' or 'read the manual' :)
>(I'm not a great believer in unnecessary swearing. If you use the word
>'fuck'* for absolutely everything from minor annoyance to extreme
>distress, you lose its value as an intensifier. So people who know me know
>that if I swear, sómething is wrong.)
>
>* I also don't understand the point of censoring a word if everyone knows
>what I mean, anyway...
>
I personally think that certain words should be confined to their literal
meanings, and thereby stripped of their pejorative connotations. Most of
the sexual vocabulary of English has ended up being either too medical, too
coarse or too silly for intimate use.

Revive "swithe"!

Pete

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