• FundMECFS
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      I would say as someone who has spent significant time in the UK, US, and Australia. That irl, people outside the US swear far more. Maybe USians are taking out their frustrations online since they don’t let themselves do it as much irl?

      • @[email protected]
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        42 months ago

        Well we have to be real careful because if we swear at the wrong person we get another mass shooting. Also that just happens anyway but we don’t like to identify the real reasons for that kind of thing so let’s blame swearing for a while.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 months ago

      Those silly cunts don’t know where I’m from. I’d question the accuracy of it even for online-only discourse.

  • Rhynoplaz
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    162 months ago

    Fuck this shit. They don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.

  • DUMBASS
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    72 months ago

    Fuck off, those cunts don’t know fucking shit all about god damn swearing, for fucks sake America, you can’t even say cunt correctly!

    Fuck off you rat assed deep fried dingo dick having fucking cuntholes.

    • Rhynoplaz
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      42 months ago

      I think it’s wild that over here you can say a thousand fucks, but mutter one cunt, and you’ve crossed the line, but you guys use it for just about everything!

      • DUMBASS
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        There’s not many things that you can’t call a cunt here, people are cunts, my dogs a cunt, that trees a cunt, the sun’s a massive cunt

        But then you’ve got this cunt here who I love, but that cunt there I can’t stand.
        Some cunt told that cunt that this other cunt called me a cunt! So fuck that cunt.

        We even have a version to call kids.

        Get out of here you little cunt!
        What are those little cunts doin?

        It’s also really useful to show urgency

        I’m not messing around vs I’m not messing around cunt.
        Also for emergencies, some cunts just got hit by a car!

        Cunt is the second most versatile word.

        The problem is, you guys still think it means that horrible one. Only misogynistic weirdos use it that way.

        • AmidFuror
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          It’s slang for vagina in the US. But so is pussy, and we call people pussies all the time. It’s also misogynistic because it means they act like a girl.

          So, I don’t know why cunt is so shunned.

  • The Quuuuuill
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    42 months ago

    it’s only swearing if someone finds it offensive.

    shit for brains authority figures would rather i call them poop for brains. doesn’t really matter that i’m saying there’s 8 pounds of defecate rattling around in their skulls. it matters that i said a no-no word from before the Norman invasion of england in 1066

  • @[email protected]
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    422 months ago

    That bunch of wankpuffins wouldn’t know proper swearing if it bit them in the bell end. It’s all just motherfucker this and asshole that. The scrote septics have no artistry to their swearing.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      Wankpuffin is actually a specific example (given within the paper) of British vulgarity considered in this study.

    • @[email protected]
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      142 months ago

      The scrote septics have no artistry to their swearing

      we’ve spent the last several decades or more killing artistry, creativity, imagination-- anything that involves doing something different than what we’re told to do day in, day out by our owners. shareholders. even what should be the top of the pyramid for creativity–hollywood–is fucking garbage anymore. it’s all remakes of shit that’s already been done. sometimes already done multiple times. and the population laps it up like hogs at the trough

      i fucking hate this place

      • @[email protected]
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        32 months ago

        You ever sit down at home, after a long day of getting shit done and being responsible with work or family, and want to jump into 2 hours of something else entirely new? Or do you do like so many of us and scroll through a streaming catalogue and aspirationally look at the new shows and movies, finding lots of things to watch but nothing that strikes you as being the right thing to watch? Do you ever settle for something good that you know and promise yourself that you will watch something new later? That’s why sequels do so well.

        People are tired and just want to see something comfortable that they know. Lay off sequels. Fix society, make us all not tired, and you will see more new shit.

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          22 months ago

          i never said remakes were the problem. i never even mentioned sequels. yes, the society that feeds on this garbage is fucked. i’m still going to criticize the garbage, even if it’s just a symptom and not the problem

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      My bet is that the rantallion that authored this pile of fetulent drivel only looked for language an American would recognise.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 months ago

      I’d take it with a pinch of salt:

      Linguists in Australia recently analyzed the Global Web-Based English Corpus (GloWbE), a massive database containing over 1.9 billion words from 1.8 million web pages across 340,000 websites in 20 English-speaking countries.