Thread: let's discuss language censorship!

Originally Posted by djonkoman

^yeah, just like my father who only says 'krammele' (frisian, but a word withpout meaning, only meaning is to replace a swearword)
and when I once accidently said verdomme(damnit) because I slipped out on a wet part of the floor he became upset...(he is christian, I'm not, and I say godverdomme(goddamnit) all the time when he isn't around, when he is I restrict myself to kut(cunt), tering(phthisis) or tyfus(typhus))
and ofcourse the good ol' fok/fokking

What's with all these dutch swear words coming from diseases?

Salmonella!

I don't know, indeed majority of our swearwords come from diseases
but then again, I could see the same about english and sexual words
and why the word shit? that's just the same, only we use diseases(a friend of me recentlty started to use syphilis, and in mky friendgroup we use aids a lot too)

btw, I think the dutch word for swearword explains a lot better what it is: 'krachtterm'(powerword, because you give extra power to a sentence or something you say)(altough the verb for saying sewarwords is vloeken, wich means to curse)


@nerve: I get the idea you're a bit like me:p
I also don't see the point of saying sorry if you're not, but I recently discovered saying sorry does get you away with much, because for some odd eason people atach value to it even if they know you don't mean it and only sai it to get away with it, so now I use that to y advantage

Originally Posted by djonkoman

I don't know, indeed majority of our swearwords come from diseases
but then again, I could see the same about english and sexual words
and why the word shit? that's just the same, only we use diseases(a friend of me recentlty started to use syphilis, and in mky friendgroup we use aids a lot too)

Hahah, I guess English is kind of silly, eh? "Shit," I think, has run its course as a swear word and is just another word now. Calling someone a bastard, though, is still kind of fun. ^_^ My grandfather used to wish poxes upon people (a pox on you!), which I guess is kind of similar. In truth, I'd like to see people doing more pox-wishing and less bird-flipping. It can be fun to tell a person to go fuck themselves, but it doesn't quite carry the same weight as wishing a slow and painful death upon them.