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Weirdly, neither 'jesus' nor 'christ' appears in this list. While reddit's obviously hugely popular internationally, I'm assuming there's some North-American c

by Jedd 4y ago

Weirdly, neither 'jesus' nor 'christ' appears in this list. While reddit's obviously hugely popular internationally, I'm assuming there's some North-American cultural impositions, de facto or de jure, in play. In my small circle there's a lot of compound expletives that include one or the other. We can trace back some common expressions of surprise or frustration to this character's name / title - crikey, jeepers, gee, I'm sure there's more - but I suppose those are both sufficiently linguistically distanced to be safe, and in the context of TFA somewhat anachronistic.

stevage 4y ago
Maybe the author just didn't want to go there. Like they avoided racist terms. But seemed ok with homophobic and sexist ones.
egypturnash 4y ago
I rarely see either of these in compound swears. Could you share some examples of these with some kind of context? I mean I see things like "sweet monkey jesus" but I never see "shitchrist", y'know?
- wisemang 4y ago
  Many years ago in high school a friend came up with “Jesus godfuck.” That one stuck with me.
- Jedd 4y ago
  On reflection nothing as sophisticated or delicious as two of my favourites -- twatwaffle or cockwomble (only the former got a mention in TFA). Typically it'd be Jesus followed by one of the stronger profanities - especially that one that Americans seem to be surprisingly sensitive about, but which Australians will exuberantly drop on a whim. To wit - while the f-word appears ~ 14 times in the article, the c-word is notably absent. (EDIT: actually it's there, once, in a PNG, which is why it didn't come up on page-search.) Referring to TFA's matrix, it looks like only a handful of potentially comfortable combinations that could use this fictional character's name against the suffixes and prefixes they've identified -- but they would feel a bit contrived.
thfuran 4y ago
Is dickjesus even pejorative?

by Jedd 4y ago

stevage 4y ago

Maybe the author just didn't want to go there. Like they avoided racist terms. But seemed ok with homophobic and sexist ones.

egypturnash 4y ago

I rarely see either of these in compound swears. Could you share some examples of these with some kind of context? I mean I see things like "sweet monkey jesus" but I never see "shitchrist", y'know?

wisemang 4y ago
Many years ago in high school a friend came up with “Jesus godfuck.” That one stuck with me.
Jedd 4y ago
On reflection nothing as sophisticated or delicious as two of my favourites -- twatwaffle or cockwomble (only the former got a mention in TFA). Typically it'd be Jesus followed by one of the stronger profanities - especially that one that Americans seem to be surprisingly sensitive about, but which Australians will exuberantly drop on a whim. To wit - while the f-word appears ~ 14 times in the article, the c-word is notably absent. (EDIT: actually it's there, once, in a PNG, which is why it didn't come up on page-search.) Referring to TFA's matrix, it looks like only a handful of potentially comfortable combinations that could use this fictional character's name against the suffixes and prefixes they've identified -- but they would feel a bit contrived.

thfuran 4y ago

Is dickjesus even pejorative?