Swear if you dare.

[travellingfay]

Well, bugger. I confess, I'm in the habit of swearing like a navvy who's just stubbed his toe, so this is going to be a trifle wearisome. Although actually, the only times I've noticed it being a problem so far in posts I've made, the words in question HAVEN'T been expletives - or were being used factually. (Picture my hilarity when the name D*ck Van D*ke became twig Van meal; henceforth I shall be obliged to call him Richard Van WomanWithComfortableShoes.)

In the spirit of investigation: "bugger, bloody, bleeding, bollocks, arse, shite, gobshite, feck, wanker, knob!"

(hits Reply, agog to see how - and indeed whether - they will be transmogrified.)

eta: Bwahahaha! Oh, fabulous! I can swear with an English accent to my little heart's content!



Ahem. Not that I shall. Obviously. Although perhaps I can? Because whilst it will be satisfying to me to retain a decent breadth of vocabulary, to the American eye/ear it just looks quaint and olde worlde and inoffensive? (Heaven knows I was gobsmacked with the Harry Potter film makers elected to have Ron Weasley say "That's bloody brilliant!" to his teacher, on his first day at school. If I'd been Minerva McGonnigal, he'd have been looking at detention for that one...but evidently the American audience just found it cute?)

...the urge to cackle in a demented and maniacal fashion, whilst brandishing the Union Jack, is almost overwhelming.

[Gran Gran]

ROFLMAO!

That is bloody brilliant!

(do enlighten me, what makes that phrase a bad one? My brittish English days are so far behind me!)

[travellingfay]

Well, whilst 'bloody' isn't an expletive on a par with 'f*cking', it's certainly as strong as 'sh*t'. (Random factoid: unlike many other English obscenities, which tend to be scatalogical or sexual in nature, 'bloody' and 'bleeding' are sacriligeous; the blood in question being the blood of Christ. Not that 99.9% of people realise this, mind you - ooh, I'm a wonderful person to have on a pub quiz team, me.)

So...most emphatically NOT appropriate language for an eleven year old boy to use towards his teacher in a traditional classroom environment such as Hogwarts. He'd be writing lines of aplogy for a good half hour of his lunchbreak if he spoke to ME like that, and I'm rather less of a tartar than Minerva, I suspect. (And if he swore at Snape, he'd probably be in detention for a good two or three years. Assuming Snape didn't just hex him into the middle of next week on the spot.)

Ahem. Sorry. Off topic, me? Never!

[asian malaysian]

^^LMAO! Its true that the meaning of a lot of bad terms and habits get lost in translation on the trip across the Atlantic. Even Nickleodeon failed to catch this one:

[awhitemothflew]

is f_ck okay?

[Grandi]

This thread makes me happy

[SD]

now this is what i mean...
on this other forum i censored some rude and inappropriate words but some just complained about it over and over again ¬_¬
both 18+... like GET A HOBBY
its not like theres no other forum who does that too
and as well i did it , because there are a lot of young kids on the forum too
but to understand that point.... noooo , they are too idiotic for that
lol