Somehow my brain finds the phrase “the F word” intensely aesthetically offensive. Unlike the word “fuck”, which is a perfectly cromulent word.
I saw a coworker tell another coworker to take “the f* word” out of their commit message during a code review today.
what is your brain’s aesthetic opinion about euphemisms? or the phrase “the fuck word” ? is it just/related to the thing where they won’t say “fuck” even to talk about the word itself?
“the fuck word” is fucking great :D
And yeah, it’s the thing where they can’t quote/mention the word ‘fuck’, it, I don’t know, offends my chaotic sensibilities or something XD
The fuck is this wimpy-ass fucking “cursing” that’s nonetheless euphemized away?
Let me introduce you to “PERKELE!”, shouted with all the power appropriate for a pre-christian eastern european god of thunder (braided beard, beer belly and impressive viking muscles on the person doing the shouting optional but recommended for maximum effect).
Finnish doesn’t make sense, it does terrible perverted things to words, and is basically elvish mangled by inelegant modernity until suddenly it turns into black speech, but it sure as helvetti utterly desensitizes people to anglo-saxon prudishness.
“Oh, you had to hide three letters of an expression for sex, sure whatever that’s nice I guess… Me? I called upon the fury of a long-dead pagan deity when I stubbed my toe.”
2 months ago · tagged #languages are weird #it's like programming #in the sense that some features one takes for granted in one are completely missing in another #and i'm left feeling like none of these fully satisfies my needs #and speaking a weird mish-mash of uralo-germano-romanicity #always borrowing expressions from one into another #like there are ways of constructing words that english simply doesn't have #but which are exceptionally important for concisely describing things #and universal pronouns for everything #and then english has a huge variety of important words #and i'm always using those to explain concepts #and end up needing to explain not only the concept itself but also the word #if i learned every single language in the world i could express probably 90% of what i need to #as long as i was talking to people who also knew dozens of different ones · 55 notes · source: michaelblume · .permalink