Where are those colorful characters (in real life)?
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Speaking of the cool English language, I am always amazed by how many F-words are used in Hollywood movies, even well-educated people use it in the work place all the time. But in real life, I just don't see or hear those people. I have lived in the USA for more than 10 years, it will probably take me three months to hear one F-word from a real person. Are the movies not real or my life is not real? Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining. ;-)
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Speaking of the cool English language, I am always amazed by how many F-words are used in Hollywood movies, even well-educated people use it in the work place all the time. But in real life, I just don't see or hear those people. I have lived in the USA for more than 10 years, it will probably take me three months to hear one F-word from a real person. Are the movies not real or my life is not real? Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining. ;-)
Depends on how much time you spend around "the younger generation". I know that my friends and I swear WAY too often. We'll go to a movie and swear while we're talking (before the movie of course, not during it :-D ), but since it's basically second nature to us, we don't notice we're swearing until we notice all the dirty looks from adults we're getting. To me, words like the F-word and the S-word, etc are just like normal, other, non-swear words. :begin side-tracked rant: Because people (in general) consider "f*ck" a swear word, I shouldn't say in public, but people (in general) could just as easily decide "banana" (or something) was a swearword, so then we'd go on talking about the dreaded B-word. :end side-tracked rant:
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Depends on how much time you spend around "the younger generation". I know that my friends and I swear WAY too often. We'll go to a movie and swear while we're talking (before the movie of course, not during it :-D ), but since it's basically second nature to us, we don't notice we're swearing until we notice all the dirty looks from adults we're getting. To me, words like the F-word and the S-word, etc are just like normal, other, non-swear words. :begin side-tracked rant: Because people (in general) consider "f*ck" a swear word, I shouldn't say in public, but people (in general) could just as easily decide "banana" (or something) was a swearword, so then we'd go on talking about the dreaded B-word. :end side-tracked rant:
The trouble with X-words is not the word themselves. It is more they are repeat so many times in a sentence. Oh X-word - that X-wording X-word repetition really X-words me off - X-word !! :-D Davy www.latedecember.com
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The trouble with X-words is not the word themselves. It is more they are repeat so many times in a sentence. Oh X-word - that X-wording X-word repetition really X-words me off - X-word !! :-D Davy www.latedecember.com
So true.. Ever seen Scarface? That movie was just too much (i heard the "182" from the band "Blink-182" came from how many times Al Pacino said "f*ck" that movie). It got to be so flagrant, that I just didn't care to watch the rest of the movie. Just too much f*cking swearing! :-D ;P
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Depends on how much time you spend around "the younger generation". I know that my friends and I swear WAY too often. We'll go to a movie and swear while we're talking (before the movie of course, not during it :-D ), but since it's basically second nature to us, we don't notice we're swearing until we notice all the dirty looks from adults we're getting. To me, words like the F-word and the S-word, etc are just like normal, other, non-swear words. :begin side-tracked rant: Because people (in general) consider "f*ck" a swear word, I shouldn't say in public, but people (in general) could just as easily decide "banana" (or something) was a swearword, so then we'd go on talking about the dreaded B-word. :end side-tracked rant:
You betray yourself - it *is* a swear word for you. You just don't care - If it were a "word like any other", imagine that: Oh Cocoa! Bananaing stop that you cocoaheaded mommy-bananaing pervert. Take your bananaed hand out of my bannanaed trouser, bananaed quick! :cool:
You don't need to sleep to see a nightmare Anne Clark [sighist]
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Speaking of the cool English language, I am always amazed by how many F-words are used in Hollywood movies, even well-educated people use it in the work place all the time. But in real life, I just don't see or hear those people. I have lived in the USA for more than 10 years, it will probably take me three months to hear one F-word from a real person. Are the movies not real or my life is not real? Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining. ;-)
Black Cat wrote: it will probably take me three months to hear one F-word from a real person. Funny, you can come to Trivandrum and in about 3 hours time you'd prolly hear bad language [english/malayalam] around you. Nish
Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]
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Speaking of the cool English language, I am always amazed by how many F-words are used in Hollywood movies, even well-educated people use it in the work place all the time. But in real life, I just don't see or hear those people. I have lived in the USA for more than 10 years, it will probably take me three months to hear one F-word from a real person. Are the movies not real or my life is not real? Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining. ;-)
I am guilty of using 'the F word' to add emotion to my writing quite a lot (where bloody would not convey my true feeling enough, such as when I find Bastard Telecom have screwed me over again) or to add a humourous edge to something. I tend not to use any swear words with any regularity in my everday speech though, as I just don't find the need to; would you fucking believe it. It also has the benefit of being one of the few words I can spell correctly first time round. ;P
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
I came here to be drugged, electrocuted and probed not insulted.
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Speaking of the cool English language, I am always amazed by how many F-words are used in Hollywood movies, even well-educated people use it in the work place all the time. But in real life, I just don't see or hear those people. I have lived in the USA for more than 10 years, it will probably take me three months to hear one F-word from a real person. Are the movies not real or my life is not real? Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining. ;-)
Compared to round here, it's your life that's not real...:-D I always like to keep in mind the learned discourses (on the subject of the word f***) of one Billy Connolly: 'They say swearing is a result of a small vocabulary - that nonsense, I know at least 128 words and my favourite's still f***!' 'Go away just doesn't have the same impact as F*** OFF' (OK, paraphrased slightly). I always find the swear index depends on the company I'm in - zero (or as close as possible) when in my grandparents or young children's range, ranging up to a much higher number when on the football pitch... Stuart Dootson 'Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p'
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Speaking of the cool English language, I am always amazed by how many F-words are used in Hollywood movies, even well-educated people use it in the work place all the time. But in real life, I just don't see or hear those people. I have lived in the USA for more than 10 years, it will probably take me three months to hear one F-word from a real person. Are the movies not real or my life is not real? Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining. ;-)
My friend a few years ago used to find is impossible to come out with one sentence without fEck in it. "Are you f*cking coming to the f*cking cinema?" etc. As I've got a bit older, I tend only to use this language when in pain or shock, or full of anger. I was riding home from a local city (about 20 miles) ony my bike and little shit behind me was rubbing my back tyre due to having to go slow behind a woman with a pushchair. I tolerated it for about 5 seconds, before I turned around and came out with the most graphic sentence of my life. The guy saw I meant it, and backed off. I felt stupid afterwards though because of the pushchair in front of me.
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Speaking of the cool English language, I am always amazed by how many F-words are used in Hollywood movies, even well-educated people use it in the work place all the time. But in real life, I just don't see or hear those people. I have lived in the USA for more than 10 years, it will probably take me three months to hear one F-word from a real person. Are the movies not real or my life is not real? Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining. ;-)
Fear no more, the fucking prince of fuckingness is here. I learned a lesson while visiting the US. In some peoples company, you do NOT say the F-word - I know this from experience :rolleyes:. Did you hear what that rude swede said? We should buy him soap so that he can wash his dirty mouth. I found it better to cuss in swedish since most people did not understand what I was saying. I'd rather get a confused stare than an evil-eye stare any day. FreeBSD is sexy. Getting closer and closer to actually submit an article...
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Speaking of the cool English language, I am always amazed by how many F-words are used in Hollywood movies, even well-educated people use it in the work place all the time. But in real life, I just don't see or hear those people. I have lived in the USA for more than 10 years, it will probably take me three months to hear one F-word from a real person. Are the movies not real or my life is not real? Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining. ;-)
Black Cat wrote: But in real life, I just don't see or hear those people. I have lived in the USA for more than 10 years, it will probably take me three months to hear one F-word from a real person. Are the movies not real or my life is not real? That's cause in the US everyone is politically correct and plastic. Noone acts like a person but what they think someone should be. Me, well fuck is an integral part of me. Every job I have ever had has to live with it and me. Also at home with my wife and kids it just pops out all the time. Michael Martin Australia mjm68@tpg.com.au "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
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Speaking of the cool English language, I am always amazed by how many F-words are used in Hollywood movies, even well-educated people use it in the work place all the time. But in real life, I just don't see or hear those people. I have lived in the USA for more than 10 years, it will probably take me three months to hear one F-word from a real person. Are the movies not real or my life is not real? Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining. ;-)
I use it all the time (apart from when I'm around my Mum or certain female friends). To me it is just a word, I know some people find it offencive. What the F*** is my favourite phrase to use when something weird happens in my code. Of course I don't use it as much as some of the kids who play on the street near my house. Michael :-) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana
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I am guilty of using 'the F word' to add emotion to my writing quite a lot (where bloody would not convey my true feeling enough, such as when I find Bastard Telecom have screwed me over again) or to add a humourous edge to something. I tend not to use any swear words with any regularity in my everday speech though, as I just don't find the need to; would you fucking believe it. It also has the benefit of being one of the few words I can spell correctly first time round. ;P
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
I came here to be drugged, electrocuted and probed not insulted.
Instead of having your characters swear to show emotion, could you use some other means to describe whats happening? One of the things I have read about writing is that a truely masterful author does not need to resort to crude methods when describing a scene. (Please note, Dave, that I am not saying that you do this.) I read about an author who never actually described an alien species in one of his books, but by halfway through, the reader had a pretty good idea that they were a reptillian species, and what they looked like.
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Speaking of the cool English language, I am always amazed by how many F-words are used in Hollywood movies, even well-educated people use it in the work place all the time. But in real life, I just don't see or hear those people. I have lived in the USA for more than 10 years, it will probably take me three months to hear one F-word from a real person. Are the movies not real or my life is not real? Don't get me wrong, I am not complaining. ;-)
Black Cat wrote: Are the movies not real or my life is not real? Both. Children start using swear words to shock their parents in the pre- to early teens. Most grow out of it by their early twenties, but more and more I see them continuing the practice. It's a shame, really, as there is no better way to assure one's own failure in life than to be perceived as an ignorant, rude lowlife. Yet the frequent use of such language creates just that impression. I hear it regularly around here, among the barflies and nail pounders I hang around with, but these people really are uneducated white trash - trailer trash - and have no future ahead of them than their current lowly estate. They are oblivious to what message their crude language is conveying to the rest of the world. Among my other friends - the business owners, directors, judges, and such - I don't hear this sort of language, and those who use it regularly are not welcome among them. Body piercings, tattoos, and bizarre hairdos are similar barriers to entry into the part of society that makes things happen. Poor language skills can at least be overcome with practice; some self-inflicted stigmata are for life, and it's sad to see so many young people marking themselves forever as undesirables. "Knock, knock." "Who's there?" "Recursion." "Recursion who?" "Knock, knock..."
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Black Cat wrote: Are the movies not real or my life is not real? Both. Children start using swear words to shock their parents in the pre- to early teens. Most grow out of it by their early twenties, but more and more I see them continuing the practice. It's a shame, really, as there is no better way to assure one's own failure in life than to be perceived as an ignorant, rude lowlife. Yet the frequent use of such language creates just that impression. I hear it regularly around here, among the barflies and nail pounders I hang around with, but these people really are uneducated white trash - trailer trash - and have no future ahead of them than their current lowly estate. They are oblivious to what message their crude language is conveying to the rest of the world. Among my other friends - the business owners, directors, judges, and such - I don't hear this sort of language, and those who use it regularly are not welcome among them. Body piercings, tattoos, and bizarre hairdos are similar barriers to entry into the part of society that makes things happen. Poor language skills can at least be overcome with practice; some self-inflicted stigmata are for life, and it's sad to see so many young people marking themselves forever as undesirables. "Knock, knock." "Who's there?" "Recursion." "Recursion who?" "Knock, knock..."
Roger Wright wrote: Poor language skills can at least be overcome with practice; some self-inflicted stigmata are for life, and it's sad to see so many young people marking themselves forever as undesirables. I must agree with that. I currently use a beard as a defense. But I'd never go into a proper business meeting unshaven even and not smelling of roses. Personally I'd never employ somone who had body piercings or tatoos either. Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining. Said by Roger Wright about me.