Swears, Insults, Off-Color Language, Stereotypes

What I find really intreseting is that cursing is so different in different languages and cultures. One of the first things I learnt in Spanish was "tu madre es una puta", "your mother is a whore", obviously not in class but by a couple of the "bad boys" in class. I've been told that if I said this in a spanish-speaking country I would be in trouble, but if I said it here, Sweden, it would only lead to a shoulder shrug. The worst thing you can say to someone here is probably something discriminating due to a persons gender or race. Political correctness is important to most swedes

I think it's silly, ugly and confusing, and most of the time bloody unuseful.



Most of the time (practicly always) words are spelled exactly as they are pronounced.

NO, no; renting her or a short term lease, at MOST !

Is a vagina a mammal?

Is that why you had to use the gender specific 'her' instead of the gender neutral 'it'?

Or is a vagina like a car or a boat or something else you go for rides in- you know how people say,
'Let's take her out for a spin...'

David - why didn't you explain that it isn't wrong where we live and learned to read and write
to pronounce the last letter of the alphabet 'ZEE'?

I think that all of our teachers in all of our years of schooling would be very surprised to learn that they were teaching all of their students through the years the wrong pronunciation for something as fundamental and basic as a letter of the alphabet. Don't you?

Hmmmm. I am not sure how to answer this. yes, everyone's heels are rounded.
When I first heard him say that, I asked what he meant.
He replied a woman who is like a "tippy toy," you know, those bulbous things
generally consisting of a ball like body topped by a ball like head.

I think it is a silly expression.

My daughter and one of her friends always said Holy **** when they were amazed. I think of a time when my ex gave our daughter a reproduction of a terrible painting of Alice in Wonderland looking like the Corpse Bride. The reproduction was huge and the original painting was very ugly.

When my daughter saw it, she immediately called her friend, who immediately came over.

"Holy ****!" she said.

Of course, there is the "yo mama . . . " school of humor.

I totally disagree with David's campaign: there are far too many American accents to use phonetic English.

What I find really intreseting is that cursing is so different in different languages and cultures. One of the first things I learnt in Spanish was "tu madre es una puta", "your mother is a whore", obviously not in class but by a couple of the "bad boys" in class. I've been told that if I said this in a spanish-speaking country I would be in trouble, but if I said it here, Sweden, it would only lead to a shoulder shrug. The worst thing you can say to someone here is probably something discriminating due to a persons gender or race.



Political correctness is important to most swedes

I totally disagree with David's campaign: there are far too many American accents to use phonetic English.

Now, David, can you come back to discussing swears?