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WCDT: 2286-90 (1-5 October 2012) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread

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techkid:

--- Quote from: Tova on 10 Oct 2012, 02:38 ---Well, the word "bugger" isn't exactly polite if you look at its meaning, but it is such a mild curse in Australia that it was the centre-piece of a particularly well-known advertisement.

Slang isn't necessarily logical.

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True. When we say "bugger the thing" when, for example, your phone slips out of your hand (but doesn't break), it's just to say that something was "unexpected, a little annoying, but not actually bad". It's not to say that we want to sodomise it or anything (when you actually look at the uses of the word "bugger")...

Well, for the normal folk of us here, anyway.

jmucchiello:

--- Quote ---True. When we say "Fuck" when, for example, your phone slips out of your hand (but doesn't break), it's just to say that something was "unexpected, a little annoying, but not actually bad". It's not to say that we want to fornicate with it or anything

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--- Quote ---True. When we say "Damn It" when, for example, your phone slips out of your hand (but doesn't break), it's just to say that something was "unexpected, a little annoying, but not actually bad". It's not to say that we want the phone tossed into Hell where it can suffer for all eternity or anything

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So are Fuck and Bugger equivalent in their "acceptability" in your example usage? I doubt it. As someone above said, Slang is not logical.

Oh, and many gourmet burgers are a mix of ground beef and ground pork.

techkid:
Whatever floats your boat, jmucchiello :) .

Seriously, though, one mans' mild curse is another mans' swearing is another mans' fucking punctuation, damn it. There really aren't that many rules to the English language that two different people can agree upon (except maybe using L3375P33K and "txt shrthnd" being made into criminal offences or something).

DSL:
One of my favorite jokes to tell (in the right company) concerns a soldier back in the barracks after an afternoon pass to town, describing to his buddies how he got on the bus, went to town, met a girl, had a milkshake with her, went to her apartment and convinced her to disrobe. The account is lengthy and the gerund form of the f-bomb is liberally interspersed throughout as a mild intensifier. The teller pauses at the cliffhanger moment and his buddies anxiously ask: "And? And? What did you do then?"
And the answer is: "What do you f***in' think we did, you f***in' jerks? We had sexual intercourse."

It's in Asimov's first joke book. He ruins it by explaining it.

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