Saturday 3 March 2012

Fuck wank bugger shitting arse head and hole!

(<-- it´s a quote from "Love actually" so not just rude but a sort of intelligent intertextual reference ;-))

I like swearing!
I have grown up that way and never in my life experienced any bad reactions because of that. If someone is an arsehole he or she simply is - no point in trying to hide anything. And "Where the fuck is my fucking coat" is just so much more fun to say than "Where did I leave my coat?" (did you get this quote as well by the way?).



People who wanna cover it and say things like "Sugar!" (the English version of "Scheibenkleister!") or mentioning "the f-word" come across as incredibly pathetic, imho.
In Germany swearing is not that much of an issue (at least in my world). Not everyone does it, not everyone loves it. But I never experienced any detentions in school or shocked faces for the use of a more graphic language. And there are definitely swear words on daytime tv, oh yes.
In England I feel that swearing is more of an issue. On TV you get constantly beeped at and on radio rude words in songs get hidden as well.
Then you leave the house and meet up the first "real" people (I´m talking short hair, tracksuit, trainers and bulky dogs here - sorry if I come across as arrogant but sometimes I just can´t help/hide it). All you can here is "fuck". 4 times, 5 times, 10 times in one sentence. Amazing. Unfortunately the effect wears of a little by that overuse... well dosed they are much more powerful, trust me.
There seems to be such a gap between media and streets. Apparently only lower and upper class swears, even there the class system keeps appearing...
I´m sure linguists and other sorts of scientists have written countless pages about this subject...I find it quite fascinating and will remain the in-yer-face German :-)


By the way, my beloved Stephen Fry has made a tv series about language last year and one episode dealt with swearing. Hilarious! Watch it if you get the chance!

 "Swearing is a really important part of one's life and it would be impossible to imagine going through life without swearing and without enoying swearing"



3 comments:

  1. Ich mag das F. word ja auch, aber beim Arbeiten ist es mal so absolut unpassend und ich muss schon gucken, dass es mir nicht raus rutscht - bei Kollegen, die ich gut kenne.. auch das ist mir peinlich. Zuhause aber nehme ich kein Blatt vor den Mund. ;o) Wobei ich wirklich nur das f-word nehme. Nix anderes...

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  2. i loved the book based on this series... was fucking hilarious to read the chapter about swearing... and i also felt kind of relieved... now i have some explanations as to why swearing is healthy :D

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  3. Oh hör auf -.- Meine Eltern sind sooo empfindlich in Sachen fluchen - ich zucke auch prompt immer zusammen wenn wer F*** oder Schei*e sagt. Ich sag immer "Verflixt", was meine Umgebung meist zum lachen bringt ;) Früher hatte ich mal eine "LEck die Katz"-Phase... ach und unlängst fand ich ja "Himmeherrgottsakra" so schön, woraufin ein Familienstreit folgte ;)

    Karten für Singerei-veranstaltungen werde ich MIT FREUDEN an dich weiterleiten. Aber ich fürchte die meisten Menschen in meiner Umgebung wissen, dass ich da keine Freude dran habe, darum hat es auch noch nie was in die Richtung gegeben.

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