I wish :shucks:

The thing about swearing in English is that the words themselves are considered 'rude' (that is, both impolite AND of the polity) because they are Anglo-Saxon (not French). That is, they are rude because they are of the people (the rude) rather than unpleasant in themselves.

I'm not sure that this distinction is true of other languages.

So what you're saying then the word itself isnt whats bad, that the speaker of certain words isnt a potty mouth. But rather its the person who hears it and 'considers' it something vulgar because most likey its their mind thats in the gutter. Which wrongly gives them cause to look down upon the speaker from their higher and holier than thou horse?

In Denmark there are a word that is totally harmless it is even in a famous children song-But in Sweden it is a very dirty word.

Markus

I used to work with a young Filipina lady who was a bit on the conservative side when it came to language. At the time, the singer Kiki Dee was becoming very popular and those of us working with her noticed she would blush and become uncomfortable whenever Kiki Dee was mentioned. After a bit of prodding, she very shyly told us "kiki" was a word used in Filipino for the female genitals...


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I do recall that a young Eastern European lady once made a mistake whilst pronouncing the local village name of 'Thorpeness', which included the silent 'E' at the end of Thorpe and changed the word completely.

And then, of course, there's the classic school mispronouncing of the word organism, which I'm sure happens in every English speaking school at least once per year. :03:

Well if it's not dirty where you are then you can tell us, can't you?

OK

IF you ask a child from Denmark how the cuckoo sound like and this child will say a word of 3 letters, whereof two of them are identical(k).

If you then say this word for people in Sweden-they will say-what a dirty word that came out of your mouth-go and wash it with soap.

In Sweden it is a very dirty slang for the mans genitals

Markus