Canadians big swearers

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According to a recent poll Canadians Swear More Often Than Americans and Britons | Vision Critical Canadians swear more than Brits and Yanks. I'm not sure if all the countries use the same criteria for swearing........in parts of Canada "tabernac" is swearing..............:lol::lol: Apparently it's more acceptable for some professionals to swear than others. I think that's bullsh*t (unless maybe it's an English grammar teacher) Any way that piece of news sure makes me feel good. :lol:
 
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I'd believe the report.... I think the Maritimes and Newfoundland are responsible for most of the swearing.... Fk'n, Fk'r, Fk'Hole, Ass, B*tch, etc. are heard just about everywhere I go around here and are used in many regular conversations, sometimes multiple times in one sentence. I know my wife from Oz doesn't swear as much as I do and not that she complains, but I figured I'd try and tone it down a bit..... though sometimes it's a real b*tch and really fk'n hard to do, god'damit.
 
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Only those poor souls afflicted with prolapsed gray matter express themselves in such vile gutter language.

:3some: Even the lil' fukkin smilies agree wit me.

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Nuggler said:
Only those poor souls afflicted with prolapsed gray matter express themselves in such vile gutter language.

:3some: Even the lil' fukkin smilies agree wit me.

:glasses3:
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When you look at the issue really deeply you have to wonder about the mentality. People use the words buck, duck, luck, muck, puck , suck and tuck all the time no problem but there's one word that rhymes with them and if you utter it you've committed a capital sin. So you have to wonder how much of it is based on sound reasoning and how much on emotion.
 
Dexter Sinister

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I've never seen any research on this and I'd like to: I suspect there are strong cultural variations in what constitutes swearing. Swearing in general seems focused primarily on three things: human sexual activities, excretory functions, and religious matters. I'd expect in a culture where the church is dominant, for instance, there'd be more swearing related to religious matters. "Tabernac" is a case in point. That's more or less equivalent to saying "church" in English, where it has no cussing force at all. But then considering all the uptight Protestants who settled the rest of this country and their taboos against sexual expression, I'd bet that outside of Quebec more of the swearing would be related to sexual behaviour. And anecdotally, all the Germans I've known well enough to be aware of their swearing style seemed obsessed with bowel functions.

Apropos of all this, I offer this little gem (not safe for work, or for children under a certain age): YouTube - Use of the F-Word in Canada - Bowser & Blue
 
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Everything in moderation. There are people around this little neck of the outback that seem to use the f'k word about every third word in a sentence; usually in front of adjectives, adverbs, and nouns. I don't mind the word once in a while, but it gets a bit dull after two sentences where the majority of the words in them is comprised of the one word. Same with "like", "man", and a couple others. It isn't funny nor is it impressive ( except in a negative way).
Having said that, my favorite expletive is shyte, usually used when something doesn't go as planned. lol
 
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AnnaG said:
Everything in moderation. There are people around this little neck of the outback that seem to use the f'k word about every third word in a sentence; usually in front of adjectives, adverbs, and nouns. I don't mind the word once in a while, but it gets a bit dull after two sentences where the majority of the words in them is comprised of the one word. Same with "like", "man", and a couple others. It isn't funny nor is it impressive ( except in a negative way).
Having said that, my favorite expletive is shyte, usually used when something doesn't go as planned. lol
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Hey, consider yourself lucky, I've even known swearers who manage to inject them into the middle of words...............like automofnbile. :lol::lol:
 
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Hey, consider yourself lucky, I've even known swearers who manage to inject them into the middle of words...............like automofnbile. :lol::lol:
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Oh, yeah. I forgot about those ones. Absof'nlutely.
 
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JLM said:
According to a recent poll Canadians Swear More Often Than Americans and Britons | Vision Critical Canadians swear more than Brits and Yanks. I'm not sure if all the countries use the same criteria for swearing........in parts of Canada "tabernac" is swearing..............:lol::lol: Apparently it's more acceptable for some professionals to swear than others. I think that's bullsh*t (unless maybe it's an English grammar teacher) Any way that piece of news sure makes me feel good. :lol:
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No surprise.
 
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Chiliagon said:
I read the poll in the newspaper today! according to the Reid poll, Albertans Swear more than any other province!.. :D

crazy.
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Not surprising, they have lots of rig workers and farmers who I doubt if their vocabulary is strictly in keeping with Webster. :smile:
 
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