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Yeah, I also struggle to agree that these words is as dangerous as some like to pretend. I might have shared this already, but it sums up my opinion pretty well:

and back to steven fry as always when it comes to swearing

I never understood people who say swearing shows a lack of vocabulary. No if you dont swear then you probably have a smaller vocab than me cause I have loads of swear words in mine as well as all the normal words!

true. but you can have a huge vocabulary, it's how u use it that matters

Norc wrote:and back to steven fry as always when it comes to swearing

Yeah.

Are you saying I should work on my "swearing is not a bad thing" material?

It's the way in which the swearing is used that can make a person sound limited.

Saying fuck in between every half a dozen words for example is painful to listen to, unless used in a deliberately ironic way. I do find it strange that people get 'offended' by such words though.

the thing is. swearing can be poetry if used correctly.

"saying fuck in between every half a dozen words for example is painful to listen to"- Carch (i'm officially abbreviating your name from now on, I only have so much time to type you know!   )

There are lots of words that some people say all the time though in that fashion, a favourite of the lesser Scottish ned is to add 'like' to the end of a sentence for no apparent reason or purpose but to be even more annoying than they normally are, as in -

"I was doon the road, like. And met ma mates, like. And we went tae the pub, like. And we met Tam there, like and he was, like, right oot of it like."

Just as fucking annoying!  

It's all about timing, sure. As Petty says saying like at the end of every word can be a lot more anoying.

When merited and used in the right place it can be used to great effect and do quite the opposite of showing the person of as having a bad vocabulary or sounding limited.

Pff - I swear all the time, and I did well enough in both Norwegian and English language classes. It's just derogatory behaviour from those who think a little higher of themselves.

Edit: Typo

Exactly.

(As a supporter of your campaign for the "Most respectable" award, I would however suggest keeping these admissions of everyday swearing to a minimum. At least until after the awards.    )

Norc wrote:the thing is. swearing can be poetry if used correctly.

I doubt it not. Was it not the great William Shakespeare who said - Shall I compare thee to a son of a motherless goat?

Just beautiful

Bluebottle wrote:Exactly.

(As a supporter of your campaign for the "Most respectable" award, I would however suggest keeping these admissions of everyday swearing to a minimum. At least until after the awards.    )

{{{ I'm very flattered, fellow countryman! Though I rarely put my swearing into writing, it's just this Jackson type that's making it very hard not to }}}

I doubt it not. Was it not the great William Shakespeare who said - Shall I compare thee to a son of a motherless goat? - Carch

Actually Shakespeare is quite sweary by the standards of the language of the day, when Hamlet asks Ophelia if he can lay his head in her lap when they watch a play and she replies no he asks her "Did you think I meant country matters?"

And incase people didn't get where the emphasis is on country she replies she had no such thought in her mind he replies, "Thats a fair thought, to lie between a maids legs."

And in Henry V when Katherine is learning English, she is appalled at the "gros, et impudique" words "foot" and "gown", which her teacher has mispronounced as "coun". It is usually argued that Shakespeare intends to suggest that she has misheard "foot" as "foutre" (French, "fuck") and "coun" as "con" (French "cunt") -wiki


Nah he could be a right sweary, dirty bastard ole Will!  

Shall I compare thee to a summers day, or stick it up there straight away.   

Some of what he wrote you'd get a lot of press and stick for now - Titus Andronicus has a brutal rape, egged on by the two rapists mother and followed up with a brutal disfigurement of the victim by cutting out her tongue and cutting off her hands and shoving branches into the stubs as hands.

Thats some pretty grim and brutal stuff.

Titus Andronicus is so creepily weird and gruesome I find it impossible to watch. He had a truly sick mind which I'd rather not know about.

It was one of the few plays I had never seen on film or stage until a few years ago when I saw the Hopkins version- I have never been able to watch it again, that scene I mention in-particular was one of the most troubling things I have ever seen in a film and is the main reason I have never rewatched it

Its horror and vileness, written by one of the greatest writers who ever lived, so its really effectively done. And that for me was a hell of a mix to take.

CNN: 10 best cities for a winter vacation

3. Tromso, Norway



There are several reasons Tromso, known as the capital of the Arctic, is great in winter.

  

It's widely regarded as Norway's most beautiful city and is a base for spotting the northern lights.

It's what?!   

 

what? really i am as baffled as you blue.. like it has a nice setting, but the city isn't exactly charming. it has some good parts, but charming is more fitting i'de say.

What about me for must respectable? Fear is respect, sort of.

i have promised to vote for ringo.

Norc wrote:what? really :scratch:i am as baffled as you blue.. like it has a nice setting, but the city isn't exactly charming. it has some good parts, but charming is more fitting i'de say.

Ah, ok. I know what you mean. I would certainly not call Oslo beautifull, though it is pretty in parts.

I get what you are saying about setting though, maybe that's what they we're getting at. Didn't you post a stunning picture of Leopold on top of a mountain looking out over Tromsø somewhere?  

Amarië wrote:What about me for must respectable? Fear is respect, sort of.

Ah, I see I'll have to vote twice now.  

wow.. that is a long time ago you've been lurking here for a while

Norc wrote: i have promised to vote for ringo.