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On 2005-01-07, Christina Websell penned:
"Monique Y. Mudama" wrote in message ... Depends on the nicety, I suppose. On newsgroups I seem to have acquired some Britishisms, like saying "bloody" instead of "damn." I don't know why. Go back to damn. It's much milder than "bloody" which is regarded as a swear word here in Britain. Tweed. Oh! Well, um, drat. Good to know, before I get myself in trouble. -- monique, roommate of Oscar the (female) grouch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eros was adopted! Eros has a home now! *cheer!* |
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"Christina Websell" wrote in message
... "Monique Y. Mudama" wrote in message ... Depends on the nicety, I suppose. On newsgroups I seem to have acquired some Britishisms, like saying "bloody" instead of "damn." I don't know why. Go back to damn. It's much milder than "bloody" which is regarded as a swear word here in Britain. Tweed. Yeah, I was very surprised at the Harry Potter movies when they had the children saying "bloody" to a teacher and not being reprimanded for it. I suspect in real life those kids would have gotten bloody hell for that!! ; Hugs, CatNipped |
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"CatNipped" wrote in message ... "Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "Monique Y. Mudama" wrote in message ... Depends on the nicety, I suppose. On newsgroups I seem to have acquired some Britishisms, like saying "bloody" instead of "damn." I don't know why. Go back to damn. It's much milder than "bloody" which is regarded as a swear word here in Britain. Tweed. Yeah, I was very surprised at the Harry Potter movies when they had the children saying "bloody" to a teacher and not being reprimanded for it. I suspect in real life those kids would have gotten bloody hell for that!! ; Hugs, CatNipped If I had dared to say that word to a teacher (and I would definitely not have done) I would have expected my ear to be very sore. My Michigan friend, Bob, says that bloody isn't regarded as a swear word in American, and he finds it "quaint." if I say it. What's the position of the word "bloody" for you Americans? Swear word or quaint? Tweed |
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On 2005-01-07, Christina Websell penned:
If I had dared to say that word to a teacher (and I would definitely not have done) I would have expected my ear to be very sore. My Michigan friend, Bob, says that bloody isn't regarded as a swear word in American, and he finds it "quaint." if I say it. What's the position of the word "bloody" for you Americans? Swear word or quaint? Tweed To me, it's a swear word that you would never hear from a USian. I've gotten the impression (media?) that certain words that you just don't hear in the US, like c**t and t**t, are more acceptable, well, as acceptable as vulgarities get, in the UK. Is that true, or more miseducation? If someone were called either in the US, it would be a heinous insult. -- monique, roommate of Oscar the (female) grouch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eros was adopted! Eros has a home now! *cheer!* |
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"Christina Websell" wrote in message
... "CatNipped" wrote in message ... "Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "Monique Y. Mudama" wrote in message ... Depends on the nicety, I suppose. On newsgroups I seem to have acquired some Britishisms, like saying "bloody" instead of "damn." I don't know why. Go back to damn. It's much milder than "bloody" which is regarded as a swear word here in Britain. Tweed. Yeah, I was very surprised at the Harry Potter movies when they had the children saying "bloody" to a teacher and not being reprimanded for it. I suspect in real life those kids would have gotten bloody hell for that!! ; Hugs, CatNipped If I had dared to say that word to a teacher (and I would definitely not have done) I would have expected my ear to be very sore. My Michigan friend, Bob, says that bloody isn't regarded as a swear word in American, and he finds it "quaint." if I say it. What's the position of the word "bloody" for you Americans? Swear word or quaint? Tweed Other than most people here knowing that it is considered a swear word in the UK, all it means here is "covered in blood" - as in I cut myself and now my shirt is all bloody. Hugs, CatNipped |
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"Monique Y. Mudama" wrote in message ... On 2005-01-07, Christina Websell penned: If I had dared to say that word to a teacher (and I would definitely not have done) I would have expected my ear to be very sore. My Michigan friend, Bob, says that bloody isn't regarded as a swear word in American, and he finds it "quaint." if I say it. What's the position of the word "bloody" for you Americans? Swear word or quaint? Tweed To me, it's a swear word that you would never hear from a USian. I've gotten the impression (media?) that certain words that you just don't hear in the US, like c**t and t**t, are more acceptable, well, as acceptable as vulgarities get, in the UK. Is that true, or more miseducation? If someone were called either in the US, it would be a heinous insult. Neither of those words are acceptable here. The c word is one of the worst that can be said. If not the worst actually, worse than the f word. The t word. Hmm. Not acceptable either, but not quite so bad as the above Means the same as c.. Bad enough though. Never say any of these words in polite company. Bloody is mild compared with these. Suggestion: don't use these words in the UK if you want to make a nice impression. Tweed |
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"CatNipped" wrote in message ... "Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "CatNipped" wrote in message ... "Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "Monique Y. Mudama" wrote in message ... Depends on the nicety, I suppose. On newsgroups I seem to have acquired some Britishisms, like saying "bloody" instead of "damn." I don't know why. Go back to damn. It's much milder than "bloody" which is regarded as a swear word here in Britain. Tweed. Yeah, I was very surprised at the Harry Potter movies when they had the children saying "bloody" to a teacher and not being reprimanded for it. I suspect in real life those kids would have gotten bloody hell for that!! ; Hugs, CatNipped If I had dared to say that word to a teacher (and I would definitely not have done) I would have expected my ear to be very sore. My Michigan friend, Bob, says that bloody isn't regarded as a swear word in American, and he finds it "quaint." if I say it. What's the position of the word "bloody" for you Americans? Swear word or quaint? Tweed Other than most people here knowing that it is considered a swear word in the UK, all it means here is "covered in blood" - as in I cut myself and now my shirt is all bloody. Hugs, CatNipped Well, we could say that too, without it being swearing. We would rarely do it though, knowing the other meaning of the word. No other meaning exactly, but knowing it's pretty rude. It isn't something you would say to a child. Sometimes I think my 4 yo niece is "a bloody nuisance" She is. Sometimes she is the epitome of what a bloody nuisance is. So I never say it. Never say what b nuisance means. Hold my tongue. She's improving. Was I ever such an awful child? Absolutely not.. She has my ear. One or two of us in the family (not many) have a point on one ear (not like Dr Spock, further down). I have it, she has it on the same ear. She has written her own Christmas cards since she was 2 and three quarters. I'm afraid. ;-) She starts school this week, although she isn't 5. I'd love to know what the teachers make of her. Last year, my brother trying to explain the marking on a road map - which she'd asked for "This is a motorway, see, red.. this is an A road and this is a B road" "A B road? Don't be silly, Daddy, bees fly, they don't need roads" Tweed |
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"Christina Websell" wrote in message
... "CatNipped" wrote in message ... "Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "CatNipped" wrote in message ... "Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "Monique Y. Mudama" wrote in message ... Depends on the nicety, I suppose. On newsgroups I seem to have acquired some Britishisms, like saying "bloody" instead of "damn." I don't know why. Go back to damn. It's much milder than "bloody" which is regarded as a swear word here in Britain. Tweed. Yeah, I was very surprised at the Harry Potter movies when they had the children saying "bloody" to a teacher and not being reprimanded for it. I suspect in real life those kids would have gotten bloody hell for that!! ; Hugs, CatNipped If I had dared to say that word to a teacher (and I would definitely not have done) I would have expected my ear to be very sore. My Michigan friend, Bob, says that bloody isn't regarded as a swear word in American, and he finds it "quaint." if I say it. What's the position of the word "bloody" for you Americans? Swear word or quaint? Tweed Other than most people here knowing that it is considered a swear word in the UK, all it means here is "covered in blood" - as in I cut myself and now my shirt is all bloody. Hugs, CatNipped Well, we could say that too, without it being swearing. We would rarely do it though, knowing the other meaning of the word. No other meaning exactly, but knowing it's pretty rude. It isn't something you would say to a child. Sometimes I think my 4 yo niece is "a bloody nuisance" She is. Sometimes she is the epitome of what a bloody nuisance is. Yep, that's why nature made 'em cute - so we wouldn't kill 'em before they're grown. So I never say it. Never say what b nuisance means. Hold my tongue. She's improving. Was I ever such an awful child? Absolutely not.. She has my ear. One or two of us in the family (not many) have a point on one ear (not like Dr Spock, further down). I have it, she has it on the same ear. She has written her own Christmas cards since she was 2 and three quarters. I'm afraid. ;-) She starts school this week, although she isn't 5. I'd love to know what the teachers make of her. Last year, my brother trying to explain the marking on a road map - which she'd asked for "This is a motorway, see, red.. this is an A road and this is a B road" "A Oh how incredibly cute!!! Hugs, CatNipped Tweed |
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On 2005-01-08, Christina Websell penned:
I've gotten the impression (media?) that certain words that you just don't hear in the US, like c**t and t**t, are more acceptable, well, as acceptable as vulgarities get, in the UK. Is that true, or more miseducation? If someone were called either in the US, it would be a heinous insult. Neither of those words are acceptable here. The c word is one of the worst that can be said. If not the worst actually, worse than the f word. The t word. Hmm. Not acceptable either, but not quite so bad as the above Means the same as c.. Bad enough though. Never say any of these words in polite company. Bloody is mild compared with these. Suggestion: don't use these words in the UK if you want to make a nice impression. Again, good to know. I would never use either of those words, most particularly the t one, since it just irritates me. The sound itself is just .... ugly. Now I wonder where I got the impression I did, about British usage of those words ... Anyway, off to Steamboat. I won't be able to post till Sunday evening at the earliest. -- monique, roommate of Oscar the (female) grouch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eros was adopted! Eros has a home now! *cheer!* |
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"Christina Websell" wrote in message
... Well, we could say that too, without it being swearing. We would rarely do it though, knowing the other meaning of the word. No other meaning exactly, but knowing it's pretty rude. It isn't something you would say to a child. Sometimes I think my 4 yo niece is "a bloody nuisance" She is. Sometimes she is the epitome of what a bloody nuisance is. So I never say it. Never say what b nuisance means. Hold my tongue. She's improving. Was I ever such an awful child? Absolutely not.. She has my ear. One or two of us in the family (not many) have a point on one ear (not like Dr Spock, further down). I have it, she has it on the same ear. She has written her own Christmas cards since she was 2 and three quarters. I'm afraid. ;-) She starts school this week, although she isn't 5. I'd love to know what the teachers make of her. Last year, my brother trying to explain the marking on a road map - which she'd asked for "This is a motorway, see, red.. this is an A road and this is a B road" "A B road? Don't be silly, Daddy, bees fly, they don't need roads" Tweed She sounds very precocious - and very bright. I hope she gets teachers who appreciate her brilliance, rather than resenting it because they're afraid she is smarter than they are. That is a problem bright kids sometimes run into. Joy |
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