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If ever a word ought to be an adjective or adverb instead of a noun this is it. It is just a weird word.

Any more for anymore odd words? favorites otherwise?

Least favorite.

finalize

My least favourite: Uranus

Hubby's least favourite: uvula

vuvuzela

2nd least favourite word = vagina

Philtrum on the other hand is one I like - it's the bit in the middle of the top lip - I like knowing what it's called - esoteric that.

Spleen is pretty good too

Coxis is quite a nice word.

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Quote: Lady Godiva

2nd least favourite word = vagina

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Reckon lady G that on this site you are in a minority!

Lynton 'my friend' if I may be so personal as to call you 'my friend' I wholeheartedly agree with you.

I much prefer to use two words instead of 'vagina' which would be 'down there' as I was brought up to say by my mam.

Oh my dog. It is so much easier to type these words than to actually say them out loud.

My mam is one of those who 'mouthed' words rather than say them out loud....words such as 'pregnant' for example.

Also - I didn't know what a 'hysterectomy' was until I was in my mid-twenties.....coz mam always said (as did all of my female 'role models')....Mrs. X has had it all taken away.

I was confused growing up....I though they meant furniture.

I just could not understand why, if they had all of their furniture taken away - they could not do any lifting for six months.

Reading the above, you may have guessed that I have lost my bloody apostrophe again.

Well, sorry to prattle on but you should all know me by now and you DO have the ability to scroll down past my posts.

I do believe my husband would really enjoy having that application at times....

Regarding this, I remain

Lady G. (BAV)

I hate it when people say 'passed away' or 'passed on.'

They fucking died. They're dead.

Get over it!

Regards

Skoob.

Les Dawson did a great sketch series with Roy Barraclough both in drag as two ladies Cissie and I forget the other and the mouthing of words that were considered useemly if kids were around. In Lancashire and Yorkshire though it might also have come about because the mill workers were skilled lip readers anyway.

"And you should have seen her ....her poor Sid hasn't been the same since she........and then he had that operation...yes out the side...had to use a...... pink it is."

classic observational comedy see it here

for vulgarity's sake, I not only hate this word but I cannot bring myself to even type it. It starts with a c and ends with a t and rhymes with hunt.

I am not sure if it is a British thing for this word to be tossed about so freely but here in the states it is not a word that is used often at all even in the most graphic sense.

From the male's perspective, the other word I hate starts with a p and ends with a k and it's something you do to your finger with a needle, but most definitely not a word you use in mixed company to describe a man's member or his demeanor.

I'm not a prude because I can toss about the f word pretty well, but these two words. I don't know. Just in a league of their own when it comes to crudeness.

I am a hypocrite perhaps.

Charpa

Charpa usage is an odd thing isn't it. In Canada the worst thing one can say is (excuse me Canucks) Tabernacle.

Want to upset an Italian call him a Stronzo or her a stronza (I suppose)

The c word yes is a Brit thing - we are into swearing in a big way in the UK so much so that it seems to me that most of the words have lost the relative impact they had.

You'll see the c word here mainly both because there are Brits but also because one can say on here rather than have to hold one's self back and some use it just for that reason but also because they are fans of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore who took swearing to unbefore known heights on their Dereck and Clive disc-

Context is probably important. Personally I find it rather a brusque word with little poetry -

It is odd taking a word aside and listening to it it can render it absurd - its only a sound yet it is also a symbol - the word itself and its sound are therefore less important than the symbolic meaning

Seriously, Tabernacle? Very interesting.

I worked for an attorney once who was famous for swearing. He had Lou Gehrig's Disease, and I say this not to say that was his excuse, but he got around in a wheelchair and was in alot of pain, took paregoric like crazy. Maybe swearing eased the pain, I don't know.

Anyways, he was a genius when it came to the law but his one flaw was his language. He swore in front of everyone. Men, women, judges, you name it.

His famous line was "it's just a word, like any other word, only the word is fuck."

So Lynton, I suppose it is the symbolic meaning that I am opposed to but with that said, I honestly bristle at the sound of the c word as well.

I also don't like the word "shush" maybe because I've been told to do it so many times in my life.

Charpa

Two of my favourite words are this and that..

I've got thousands of others. But on this Anglo-American writers website, I'd like to recommend the great Shakesparean word 'bottom'.

Such a fine word. Proud.. noble....

Goes without saying therefore that I don't use the word ass. Or even the english arse. Except as a mild expletive, like you fucking areshole.

Also, and this is a product of sustained UK socio/political pressure.. I can't do with spastic or retard.. I know they're OK words in the States. They pop up entirely innocently on here. Part of our cultural divide. Try saying them around a dinner table in London - you really will hear a pin drop..

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Quote: Charpa93

for vulgarity's sake, I not only hate this word but I cannot bring myself to even type it. It starts with a c and ends with a t and rhymes with hunt.

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Monkey Woods says: Confront? There's fuck all wrong with saying 'confront', you cunt.





Steady, lad. It's a spoof site.

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Quote: Lady Godiva

I much prefer to use two words instead of 'vagina' which would be 'down there' as I was brought up to say by my mam.

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Monkey Woods says: I know what you mean. Even though it is the correct biological term for the organ, it seems that, aside from 'confront', vagina is one of those words that few amongst us would want to hear in the middle of the Six O'Clock News.

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Quote: Skoob from Burnley

I hate it when people say 'passed away' or 'passed on.'

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Monkey Woods says: Skoob, I wonder whether this usage might be down to superstition - "if we say the word 'died', we may invite death into our own house", kind of thing.

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Quote: Lynton

Dawson

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Monkey Woods says: Good day to you, Sir.

Another word for cunt is twat.
This word is equally horrid and lavatorial.
I wont say it again mum, honest.

Oh my - you lot ARE crazy - thank dog and donkey.

My mam WAS a Les Dawson type, she 'mouthed' a lot of 'those' words and phrases, she's not so bad these days.
She had a major stroke about ten years ago. It's affected her in that she gets nouns mixed up - she can have a whole conversation without using nouns even names of people. It's like a huge guessing game. But we love her.

Sometimes you have to wait AGES for a word that will give you a clue as to what or who she is going on about.

She laughs sometimes when we say back to her what she has said. She even used the word 'shit' in a sentence - which my mam would NEVER say in a month of Sundays....she doesn't know she's said the wrong word...We just told her to be careful if the vicar pops in.....

My Great Aunt is similar....they can be talking to each other (you may think they are, on observing them) -but listen carefully and you will hear two different conversations going on and they are both oblivious to it....

As for people dying:

I have to suppress giggles when people say they've 'lost' their dad, or 'lost' their aunty etc.
I want to say, 'Where did you last see him/her?'
Why won't people say 'died'....

I suppose we 'lost' our dad (which we did) means there is a possibility we'll 'find' him again (which we won't).


The 'c' word. My goodness Charpa...you wouldn't like to do 'yard duty' with me at school. We have little ones as young as 4 or 5 years old using the word freely. Usually it has the 'f' word as an adjective in front of it.


Those are some of the first English words the big kids teach them. Because many speak German at home...their parents know very little English (some of them) they get away with saying all sorts of stuff coz their parents can't understand what they are saying.

Calling someone a 'prick' over here is everday banter....
I know a lot of 'pricks'....I work with a few....Oops!

I don't have a problem using that word but don't normally 'swear' apart from 'bloody hell'.

Funny thing 'language'...

Scheissen is a nice word...it feels good to shout it out now and again....a release.

On that merry note....onwards (best save some for later!)

Regards

Lady G.

The explanation I've heard from this is that British vulgarity is based on sex and French vulgarity is based on the church. Something to do with national oppression they say.

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Quote: Lynton

Charpa usage is an odd thing isn't it. In Canada the worst thing one can say is (excuse me Canucks) Tabernacle.

Want to upset an Italian call him a Stronzo or her a stronza (I suppose)

The c word yes is a Brit thing - we are into swearing in a big way in the UK so much so that it seems to me that most of the words have lost the relative impact they had.

You'll see the c word here mainly both because there are Brits but also because one can say on here rather than have to hold one's self back and some use it just for that reason but also because they are fans of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore who took swearing to unbefore known heights on their Dereck and Clive disc-

Context is probably important. Personally I find it rather a brusque word with little poetry -

It is odd taking a word aside and listening to it it can render it absurd - its only a sound yet it is also a symbol - the word itself and its sound are therefore less important than the symbolic meaning

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True!

My least favourite word is 'Noel Edmonds'.

Blast!

My least favourite 2 words are 'Bearded Noel Edmonds'.

Bother! My least favourite 3 words are 'Bearded Demon Noel Edwards'.

Pish! My least favourite 4 words are 'Bearded Demon Noel "Rumpelstiltskin" Edwards'

etc etc

(***this film was based on an idea stolen from Monty Python's Flying Circus. Any resemblance to an actual person named Noel Edmonds is entirely intentional)

(^^^His middle name is Ernest. Shouldn't it be Mountebank?)

Well, there you go. The explanations for using the c word, while not really saying whyits use is necessary, do help me to understand that it isn't said so much in a vile way but more in a "oh, we say that every day way."

Myself, I'll refrain.

thank you.

Charpa

Good on yer Charpa!

Lady G - Like your mum in some ways - My eyes are going - I get Nuns mixed up with penguins particularly on zebra crossings


Erskin - didn't you know that Noel all those things Edmonds is the adult version of Rosemary's baby ?

Where have all the mountebanks gone these days? Same way as the hawkers, circulars and peddlers - hounded out along with Bill posters and Bill stickers. Modern recycling has killed the Totters and Rag and Bone Men (who now go under the names of various charities)


Monkey

Good day to you to Sir! You are well I trust?


Skoob

In France when someone croaks they say they've 'disappeared' - well after a few days in this heat you won't need bloodhounds to find 'em!

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Quote: victor nicholas

British vulgarity is based on sex and French vulgarity is based on the church. Something to do with national oppression they say.

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Interesting. I'd never heard that.

Trying to find out more, I found this wikipedia page on profanity.

Very amusing - It would seem Wikipedia is having problems with that particular entry which we could easily sort out here at The Spoof.

lol

I liked this part:

Censorship?
For christ's sake: changing "fuck" to "f*ck" or "cunt" to "c***". Of all the places to impose your irrational and fascist obsession with forcing the world to speak and behave in ways that make you comfortable (all the while of course perpetuating the words' state of profanity rather than eliminating it), it is NOT in a fucking encyclopedia--y'know, where one supposedly goes in the hope of accessing unbiased and comprehensive information and education on virtually any conceivable subject? The place that is NOT about toting one's own viewpoint, that is NOT about hushing up the things that make one uncomfortable and pretending they don't exist, that is NOT about censorship to avoid offending people? You familiar with that, the encyclopedia? Information--sober fact--can never offend; and to think that it can, to be offended by fact, is grossly irrational. To try and cover up concepts or words is the pinnacle of intellectual subversion, and to do so because you, for whatever rationalization you may offer, don't like them is the pinnacle of dogmatic, fascist oppression.

Hopefully this will suffice in demonstrating, if anything the offensiveness of censorship, and how severely inappropriate it is in an encyclopedia of all places. However, if some of you dogmatic little fucks continue on with your narrow-minded, intellectually oppressive bullshit, then sadly I will have to play the "it's in the rulebook" card: Wikipediarofanity, Wikipedia:NOT#Wikipedia_is_not_censored, Wikipedia:Content_disclaimer. --Iamthedeus (talk) 01:16, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

The discussion about the appropriateness of this comment and whether it qualified as a personal attack was not relevant per se to the Profanity article or to the content of what I was saying; as such I've moved it to my talk page. -Iamthedeus (talk) 21:05, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

He makes an excellent point.

On the other hand, I suppose it's nice to try to respect the feelings of others, too.