What's the consensus on swearing here
What's the consensus on swearing here
Noticed not many people use curse words.
So.. why the fuck not?
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I try to ease up on the c word when I think I might be replying to an American because I'm aware it has pretty hideous connotations over there.
They're all cunts anyway
Am American. Can confirm. Tons of cunts here.
Oi!
the c word
communism?
This is lemmy so capitalism
I'm an American and I throw cunt out often enough. I'm from Jersey though and we curse a bunch, and I also was in the Marines, where we cursed a lot. It's where I picked up the phrase cunt hair, as in the unit of measurement.
Ah, Finnish army also has (or at least had) that unit of measurement, "pillukarva", literally pussy hair.
Is karva related to the Polish kurwa? I'm American and you guys are close to each other in my uneducated estimation, and so I feel like there's gotta be something there right? And oldest profession is an old word.
Merry Christmas, and thanks for the new word.
I doubt. Karva is just any hair, except hair on head (facial hair is still karva though it has also specific words too).
Animal hair can also be karva, but only when it's "fallen off" such as dog or cat hair sticking your clothesIt sounds similar, but karva is hair. Finnish and Polish are pretty far apart as far as European languages go. Merry Christmas!
there's a subset of women here that go absolutely berserk if you call them a cunt in certain contexts. besides them though, its just another curse word here. use it as you please. pretty fun to say sometimes. and if you say it with an aussie accent, you have a free pass to say it whenever you want
Just use ankle for Americans, it’s less offensive to them and most of them are about three feet lower than a cunt anyways.
You can bet your fanny that we have a stronger connotation for that word here.
American here. I try to remember that other folks outside the US don't have the same negative association we do with that word. It certainly helps ease the stigma I have for it when it's said in good fun in a conversation. I still can't bring myself to say it or write it often though.
You're a cancer on society. JK I love the word cunt, but yeah some Americans are just as sensitive about a word as they are a titty