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Thursday Open Thread | 90 comments (84 topical, 6 editorial, 0 hidden)

Excuse my FRENCH y'all but WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH MY PERSONAL COMMENTS PAGE ! Jesus Christ on a bike! (Thanks Helen)

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 02:45:11 PM EST

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I'm fed up with you guys using the expression "Excuse my French" when you are being rude and vulgar. This expression is stupid and its use is offensive.

"Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

by Melanchthon on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 04:16:38 PM EST
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If I switch to using only French curse words would it be OK?

by MarekNYC on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 04:19:55 PM EST
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e.g. "This 'pardon my French' expression is con and me fait chier" (Pardon my French)

by MarekNYC on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 04:29:08 PM EST
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...con and me fait chier

Shit, now what does this mean?

Pardon my .... English?

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 05:51:47 PM EST
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'stupid' and 'really bugs me' or to put it literally 'cunt' and 'makes me shit' (though 'con' is rarely used in its literal sense, and its figurative one is pretty mild)

by MarekNYC on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 06:30:13 PM EST
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Wow! I have never seen "cunt" on any blog. I must have been living a sheltered blogging life so far.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 04:28:55 AM EST
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Indeed. A check in the ET archives shows it has been used 30 times (several are, or may be, simple typos), but no mention of McCain's characterization of his wife, which I was expecting to find.

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 04:48:49 AM EST
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Have any of the uses been other than in discussion of the word?

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 04:50:04 AM EST
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I didn't check them all, but most of them are indeed in linguistic discussions or in quotes of what other people had to say about Berlusconi.

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 04:53:52 AM EST
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I agree. It's good anglo-saxon and we should be proud of it. English, the best language in which to swear loudly and offensively.

I know I do.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 04:37:23 PM EST
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Why are the good English swear words still English instead of French? Did the Norman invaders not swear?

by asdf on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 07:04:19 PM EST
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I have no idea about the ancestry of the swear words I use. Some seem to be Shakespearean but who cares ? It ain't what you say, it's how you say it that matters.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 05:26:03 AM EST
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Sorry. Learned it from my deceased parents. Will not use it in the future. (Oooooo ... touchy!)

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Thu Aug 28th, 2008 at 05:47:19 PM EST
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Thursday Open Thread | 90 comments (84 topical, 6 editorial, 0 hidden)