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> Or consider the fact that Germans tend to use faecal terms to curse while in English, sexual terms are more common. Bullshit. :) (But I fully agree with th
by mogrim 13y ago
> Or consider the fact that Germans tend to use faecal terms to curse while in English, sexual terms are more common.
Bullshit.
:)
(But I fully agree with the rest of what you say).
- judk 13y ago> tend. "Bullshit" is vulgar slang, not cursing. You don't yell "Bullshit" when you stub your toe.
- gjm11 13y ago"Shit" isn't uncommon, though. It seems to me that English-language cursing is pretty broad-spectrum. For the toe-stubbing situation, for instance, you have the scatological ("Shit!"), the religious ("Christ!", "Damn!"), the sexual ("Fuck!"), the anatomical ("Arse!", at least in the UK; I don't think "ass" is used that way in the US), the weird-hybrid-between-sexual-and-religious-and-ethnic-minority-abuse ("Bugger!"; look its etymology up some time). Personally, I usually just say "ow".
- mogrim 13y agoAnd let's not forget a personal favourite: "You fucking piece of shit!", which nicely spans the faecal/sexual linguistic divide.
- twic 13y agoPersonally, i tend to shout "SHITTING FUCK" in that situation. I'm British, with some possibly-German ancestry five or six generations back. As is often the case, the Daily Mash illustrates the truth: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/paper-cut-sparks-new-swear-words-201109304371 http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/paper-cut-sparks-...