From: "Christian M. Cepel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> if you're in the same position I was in... After reading & hearing the
> word in so many different contexts, I'd started using it casually,
> thinking it was the equivalent of 'damn', or some such. Indeed it
> seemed thrown around in such a way tha
You're exactly right in that it's in the 'hearer' that the distinction
is drawn.
I was taught by one friend and native Hindi speaker to jokingly call
people 'pagel' or 'pagelpan' to call them crazy, and the same by a
Taiwanese speaking friend to call someone 'san-ba' for the same purpose
(it
Well coming from England I'd have to say that I've never thought that it
was anywhere near as bad as the 'f' word. Yes I do know what the word
refers to and so it would make sense for it to be just as offensive, but
I never found it to be the case in either Birmingham or London when I
lived th
Christian,
I then later in life missed a chord in my folk guitar class in college and
let it slip under my breath... My Australian teacher made it clear to me
that the word has all the same meanings and connotations as the "f" word,
both in her home of Australia, and also in other places sharin
I'm going to top post _AND_ snip for those of you who hate that, as it's
a slightly different thread.
Hey Andrew, this is off topic, but I thought you might like a heads up
if you're in the same position I was in... After reading & hearing the
word in so many different contexts, I'd started us
