Open Mouth, Insert Fuck

Jun 10, 2013 09:28

So, it's ironic that I, just yesterday, was talking about my rather unfortunate habit of peppering my speech with the word "fuck." I mean, very very frequently. To the point where I find it easier to just not say anything around my best friend's eight-year-old ( Read more... )

oy, friends, language, faux pas

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bluebear2 June 10 2013, 16:15:24 UTC
Just a theory but maybe since you have such a wide knowledge of various languages, that you're aware that words are just constructed things and have no intrinsic meanings, whereas someone, who might be monolingual, is so enveloped by their own language that they don't have perspective enough to know this and so a word has more power to them.

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aadroma June 10 2013, 18:38:08 UTC
Ah, but this man is also multilingual, so that rules that out.

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sneaky_piecrust June 11 2013, 05:08:04 UTC
my wife and I have been watching the HBO
series,sex and the city
while most of the characters
make liberal use of the word fuck
nobody uses the word shit . . .

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