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Re: Language slipping?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 24 Dec 1999 13:06:41 GMT
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> Christopher Lannan wrote in message ...
> > This all "eye of the beholder" stuff. For example, the English curse word • for
> > excrement, that starts with an "S" would be commonly considered to be
> > profanity, but what about in other languages?
In Sweden, people (well, teenagers actually) use it (or used it) together
with "Oh" when things were cool, or went wrong, if a car didn´t stop and hit
a wall or something.
--Tobias
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| Christopher Lannan wrote in message ... (...) for (...) Of course just to be troublesome, the S word is actually a perfectly valid English word. As a verb, it is conjugated similarly to "sit". The only reason it is vulgar is that a rather uppity (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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