In english, almost all rude slang is either scatological or sexual. Damn and its variants are the major exception. Unlike say french, where much rude slang is blasphmemous.
-Adam Tim Øsleby wrote: > Thanks Godfrey. > > There are so many words that are not proper. Sometimes I wonder what a list > of proper words would look. How many entries? 20? Hopefully a bit more, but > you get my point. > > To bug somebody is being a nuisance. I get that. And being a nuisance is > also described as being an ass. I guess that’s the connection. Never the > less, avoiding all "bad" words makes the language so limited. > > > Tim > Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Godfrey DiGiorgi > Sent: 4. oktober 2006 12:52 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Need help: Photoshop molested children portraits? > > I don't know what the issue is other than prudishness. > > To bugger someone means to have anal intercourse with them. Seems to > be this parlance that is more British English than American English, > though. To call something a "nasty little bugger" is often used in > American English to mean something small, insect like, an annoyance, > or "cute little bugger" is a form of curmudgeonly endearment. > > I was curious so I looked up the word in the OED: > ---- > bugger > noun > > 1 [with adj. ] a contemptible or pitied person, typically a man. > - a person with a particular negative quality or characteristic. > - used as a term of affection or respect, typically grudgingly : all > right, let the little buggers come in. > > 2 derogatory a person who commits buggery. > verb [ trans. ] > penetrate the anus of (someone) during sexual intercourse; sodomize. > > exclamation > used to express annoyance or anger. > > PHRASAL VERBS > bugger off [usu. in imperative ] go away. > > ORIGIN Middle English (originally denoting a heretic, specifically an > Albigensian): from Middle Dutch, from Old French bougre, originally > in the sense ‘heretic,’ from medieval Latin Bulgarus ‘Bulgarian,’ > particularly one belonging to the Orthodox Church and therefore > regarded as a heretic by the Roman Church. The sense [sodomite] (16th > cent.) arose from an association of heresy with forbidden sexual > practices; its use as a general insult dates from the early 18th > cent. Compare with Bulgar. > --- > > Godfrey > > > On Oct 4, 2006, at 11:42 AM, Tim Øsleby wrote: > >> Bugger off, Frank ;-) >> What's wrong about that word? Why do you have so many "wrong" >> words? What's >> the point with a word, when it's "wrong"? >> >> Seriously: I may need an offline hint about this mysterious meaning >> of the >> word too. >> >> >> Tim >> Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian) >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of >> frank theriault >> Sent: 3. oktober 2006 21:19 >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: Re: Need help: Photoshop molested children portraits? >> >> On 9/30/06, Jostein Øksne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Thanks Dave, >>> >>> That's the bugger. >> Bad choice of words, Jostein (recognizing, of course, that as English >> isn't your first language, you may not know what "bugger" is slang >> for). >> >> I should write you off list. >> >> cheers, >> frank >> -- >> "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
