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WCDT: 2236-40 (23-27 July 2012) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread

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Kugai:
The secret is there is no secret

Either that or Tai is Doras 'Love Child' sister.

Blackjoker:
As a side note, Doras hair looks a lot poofier than normal, maybe the hairband, maybe something else, just observing

YourMaster:

--- Quote from: pwhodges on 23 Jul 2012, 03:35 ---It's a huge generalisation, of course, and any number of counter examples can be found.  But none the less, overall it is widely recorded to be so.  As another example, I offer: "shoot" for "shit".

--- End quote ---

I'm Canadian and the swear word hierarchy is perhaps sliiiightly different from the US, but pretty close.  From where I'm standing, ass is more blatant than arse.  Looking up the etymology quickly, it looks like it's probably just two pronounciation variants of the same term, not a bowdlerization.

I'm totally willing to entertain the notion that British people are less likely to care than Americans, and that's perhaps *why* Americans will sometimes substitute a similar British word that is considered fairly innocuous where they are from -- you can get away with arse in contexts where you can't get away with ass, shite when you can't get away with shit, and so on.  I kind of suspect any swear word that isn't used where you're from sounds perhaps a bit childish and bowdlerized, even if from the speaker's perspective they are the harshest mouth-sounds they could come up with, so I don't think comparing specific word choices are great examples.

(shoot for shit is a good example, though I don't think I've heard anybody say that when my age was in the double digits).

Mr_Rose:
The secret is that Sven and Dora are only half-siblings, due mostly to her parents' regard for mind-altering substances and association with people of like mind.

clipboard:
Sup. Lost my old log in, kinda new-ish. Re-registered to voice my opinion on the secret. Is it ...

Padma never left?
(Inception bong.mp4)

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