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19 Mar 2015, 12:11 am
No. It's a well known colloquialism & I see no issues with using it.
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19 Mar 2015, 1:26 am
trollcatman wrote:
Mitrovah wrote:
trollcatman wrote:
lostonearth35 wrote:
Yes, I think it sounds very vulgar and stupid. I'm glad I'm not the only one. But I hate it no matter how it's used because it's a swear word and to me it's not mild and it ranks up there with the f-word. I get it though. Most adults, especially guys, don't want to say poop or poo because it's childish, and feces is supposedly restricted to doctors.
But using it in place of something generic makes the person sound a lot more childish and immature. "Today at lunch we had burgers and fries and s***". Well now, that literal picture in my mind sure does make *my* mouth water!
And then there's using it in place of words that rhyme with it in commonly used phrases such as "Are you kidding me?" or "I kid you not!" I guess if you use the word "kid", soon people will look at you like you just suddenly spoke a strange alien language. Ugh...
But using it in place of something generic makes the person sound a lot more childish and immature. "Today at lunch we had burgers and fries and s***". Well now, that literal picture in my mind sure does make *my* mouth water!
And then there's using it in place of words that rhyme with it in commonly used phrases such as "Are you kidding me?" or "I kid you not!" I guess if you use the word "kid", soon people will look at you like you just suddenly spoke a strange alien language. Ugh...
But is s**t really more offensive than poop or feces? s**t is the original word, it has cognates in several related Germanic languages as well (schijt in Dutch, Scheisse in German)
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But the words that are considered offensive are arbitrary, they vary from culture to culture. And in the English language you can do some strange things because of its grammar, you could use "piece of s**t" in a sentence as a noun or as an adjective, or even combine them: a piece of s**t piece of s**t.
Well no s**t sherlock, BUUT the point that seems to escape you is the fact that in those examples, the word is in its realm of offensive vulgarity isn't it? Guess what I arbrarily decided to start saying f-u-c-k to everyone in public as a greeting all day with a smile on my face and then I will see how arbitrary things can really get
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19 Mar 2015, 8:01 am
I don't understand why people use that phrase either. I tend to think literal with some things, and this is one of them. Whenever someones says something like "let me grab my s**t", I think or sometime even say jokingly "I didn't know feces could look like notebooks" or "Why would you want to grab excrement?".
