I think the key difference is using strong language as a weapon. If I hammer my thumb, the air might turn a little blue, but if next door's kids kick their ball into the flowers AGAIN, I would moderate my language and try to be civil and rational. F'ing and blinding at others is a loss of control, not a demonstration of power.
If I banged my leg on the corner of a desk at work, ffffofgoodnessake worked reasonably well. The shorter version seemed much better at home. Oh sugar! doesn't work at all
Sugar works quite well when rhymed with bugger or at least it did when I was a child. I can still recall walking home from school with my mother when I was about 9 or 10. I was skipping along beside her singing Sugar Sugar, Bugger Bugger Bugger. She was quite horrified but I didn't even realise I was "swearing" - presumably just a word I'd picked up recently from school and liked the sound of
I would say the N word is not acceptable anywhere.
Even seeing this makes me feel uncomfortable. Yet oddly, I never have this reaction when I hear a black person say the full word on TV.
I’ve a potty mouth. I do ‘try’ to be careful when & who I swear in front of. My swearing isn’t always in anger or frustration, I also swear in moments of joy and joyous disbelief. If someone told me I’d won a big prize, I’d probably say ….. s💩ing hell! I’d never say the C word though.
Some of the Cantonese swearing sounds so much cruder to me. I can’t give you an example of one translated because it is just so bad!
@Fire I don't want to cause a insult or an uproar, but could you explain something to me please....... We can not call them coloured people (yes I accept that) but are to call them people of colour...... what is the difference?
@Fire I don't want to cause a insult or an uproar, but could you explain something to me please....... We can not call them coloured people (yes I accept that) but are to call them people of colour...... what is the difference?
Why do you have to call them anything? we are all people and we are all people of colour weather that be white, brown, black yellow or whatever.
That person would suffice.
The only time I can see the need to mention the colour of a person is within the criminal sphere but even then the Police use IC1, 2,3 or 4 for the purpose of progressing an investigation.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
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I can still recall walking home from school with my mother when I was about 9 or 10. I was skipping along beside her singing Sugar Sugar, Bugger Bugger Bugger. She was quite horrified but I didn't even realise I was "swearing" - presumably just a word I'd picked up recently from school and liked the sound of
”Mine is duck,” said Del, “but I don’t know what that is in French.”
”It’s ‘canard’ ”
”You can say that again, bruv.”
Why do you have to call them anything? we are all people and we are all people of colour weather that be white, brown, black yellow or whatever.
That person would suffice.
The only time I can see the need to mention the colour of a person is within the criminal sphere but even then the Police use IC1, 2,3 or 4 for the purpose of progressing an investigation.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'