‘Some may find it disappointing,’ said the new study’s Australian co-author.
  • The QuuuuuillEnglish
    4•1 month 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

  • Rikudou_Sage
    5•30 days ago

    Among English speaking countries. I doubt you’d beat mine if it was interlingual analysis.

  • @[email protected]English
    13•30 days ago

    Meanwhile we have to act like we don’t at work and around lots of idiots who get “offended.”

    Fucking cunts.

    • @[email protected]
      4•30 days ago

      Depends on the workplace. At my engineering workplace I regularly hear someone yell “fuck!” or “shit!” when something goes awry. At all my blue collar jobs people cussed like sailors just as long as customers weren’t in earshot.

    • @[email protected]English
      6•30 days 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.

  • DUMBASSEnglish
    7•1 month 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
      4•1 month 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!

      • DUMBASSEnglish
        6•1 month ago

        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
          3•1 month ago

          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.