> For folks I meet that learn mostly through television, it can get even worse because the shows don't always portray dialog in a natural way. Those folks shou

> For folks I meet that learn mostly through television, it can get even worse because the shows don't always portray dialog in a natural way. Those folks should start watching some fucking proper television ;) Good point about "fuck" creeping into the slang of a lot of other languages, I've witnessed the same very often but never really noticed until you pointed it out like that. Curse words seem to have a certain attraction in that regard, I probably know the equivalent of "fuck" in like 4-5 different languages, while understanding literally not other phrases in those languages.