I was brought up on one of the roughest housing estates in Europe and the only way you could stand out was by not using foul language. I was always a lady and too lazy to swear. Like it or not, bad words are part of our heritage and should only be used in dire circumstances. Now, I am afraid with overuse they have become largely innocuous and sometimes even comical. They have lost all their shock power. Can anybody INVENT any new ones? Remember they must be freshly coined. Con amore Bx
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Hi Batteria, before responding I'd like to echo all that Jerry's said. Experience has shown us that this sort of post can accidentally end up in really hot water, so we all need to be really careful, but I'll give you a word which my own family picked up during our travels up and down between Scotland from England.
It's Ecclefechan, which is legitimately the name of a village in Dumfries and Galloway and it's entered into family conversations in circumstances such as 'oh I can't get the ecclefechan top off this jar of jam'. In fact Scotland's a rich source of possibility. How about Auchtermuchty? (A town in Fife.). More suggestions in this YouTube video? youtu.be/mxKVbCbDVv8
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Thank you. I love them. Bx
Well pixie would like to contribute his swear word is MEOWOWOW he uses it frequently when he can't find me and tries to get me out of bed on a morning well you didn't know it was pussycat swear word lauguage did you as he as used it often on his posts LOL well I must get off here and go in park while it's nice 🌞😺😁🙀he's hiding he thinks he's in trouble now lol
I agree about them losing their shock power. Definitely over used both in conversation and sadly in TV programmes .
I suppose I could mention a word which has been used frequently by some of us here - especially with reference to dear Bazzak, whom we affectionately call the Pilker. It started when he wrote ' pilking on me, ' instead of ' picking on me, ' when one of us was winding him up. We've never let him forget it😁 A ' pilk' has come to mean a typo , and a 'Pilker' someone who pilks. Sorry - immature I know but it's given us a good laugh 😁🐰
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Sorry couldn't resist that one my little Pilker 😁😘
That was brave of you Maria! You might have brought forward the wrath of the Pilker in full force😂🤣
Meowflipingmeow no I been swearing lol 😺😺😺have a nice day mummy's going out now xx
I completely agree.
Oh I agree. I tried this once before when I was teaching and we were doubled over laughing at some of the utterances. bx
There are many words that have more than one meaning...You can refer to someone as "obese" but not "fat"?
A "Screw" used to be used most often for "helical fastener".
"Sex" used to be mainly used for the state of being male or female... and the word "gender" was only applicable to words and grammar.
We used to rear broiler breeders, so only females were required, so a sexer came to sex the birds, and separate the cocks from the hens.
And now we have to use the phrase "ethnic origin" instead of "race" - and "Person of African (or Asian etc.) ethnic origin" or "person of colour".
And, near Elgin, there is a place called Fochabers. I woke up in Elgon once, with concussion after a car accident... and asked:
"Where am I?" they said I was in Elgin, and I said:
"Where is that?" They said:
"It is the County Town of Morayshire!"
I remembered that I had been in Fochabers the previous evening, and they told me that it was just down the road.
🤣And balls were used to play tennis with . And snooker.😁
When I worked in the playground one teacher would lend us tennis balls for the kids but always wanted them accounted for, there were always fits of giggles at the end of play when a child was asked to take Mr...... balls back to him please 😂😂
I “has been” a technical author… and someone was reviewing a document - and he thought that a paragraph was nonsense. He did not want to use a four-lettered word, so he wrote:
“Round objects” in the margin.
When the document got back to him somebody had written:
“Who is Round - and why does he object?”
I don’t think a language can be policed. My brother is a pianist and he insists on being called a piano player. I sometimes forget and then I’m in trouble. He barks Piano player at me. My other brother was a bilateral amputee and he wouldn’t let us say stump. We had to say leg end. I cringe when I read attendees instead of attenders but there is nothing I can do about it. The word has even gained dictionary acceptance. Let’s hope all this pedantry never stops us from communicating with one another. I still say me dad and me mum. I know it’s wrong but it’s my language too and I happen to like some aspects of it. I used to love the word czechoslovakia but I hardly get to say it nowadays. I do go on don’t I?Ignore me if you think I’m a pedant too. Con amore Bx
Go on as much as you like😊I find language fascinating. I still say me dad and me mum - in fact I say 'me' instead of 'my' a lot 🐰
Oh yes.🐰
I remember telling my mother that there are no “g’s” in thy word “bother”.
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