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[illustratedjai]

Last semester, I took a socioling course at my Uni (low level, easy credits and GPA booster, as well as being my field of interest) and ended up doing a presentation on swearing. As a point of interest, and just for flavour, I'd done an informal online survey of as many people as I could find. One of the questions was "What's the worst swear word

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[miss_next]

I'm not really sweary. I tend to say "bloody" as a very last resort. However, my best friend is a most creative user of profanity and can come out with some tirades worthy of Mark Twain, especially when he's behind the wheel of a car.

His favourite swear appears to be "arse biscuits!", which always makes me laugh. I'm not sure that's the effect it's meant to have. :-)

[illustratedjai]

Huh~ I love finding out people's roots, and how they affect their speaking. I've lived in the same bit of British Columbia (Greater Vancouver Regional District, to give it the full, long, and slight pointless name) all my life, and thought that my accent was pretty standard. However, in a recent phonetics unit in a Ling class, I found out that my father's roots in Kansas City have apparently had more of an impact on how I draw out certain syllables than I thought! (We had an argument in class about my IPA-ization of some word or other until I said it. And then everyone sort of went "oooooh.")