On 11/04/2010 23:08, Judy Perry wrote:
--Well, it, and its companion adjective denk/dank, both have roots in
the drug culture, as does one of the teens in question, and hence they
were shocked to hear my 9 year olds repeating these words in public.
They seem not to have grasped that you don't teach kids words you
don't want them to be using.
Many, many years ago when I was about 7 I dropped something heavy on my
foot and exclaimed "Bloody hell!'
My mother was not at all happy about this; especially when I pointed out
that my father had used it the day before when he
cut his finger sawing wood.
However; words, as we all know, don't carry semantic loads around with
them; we apply semantics to words when
we hear them, so what constitutes a 'bad' word is a bit of a moot point.
The plumber broke his ankle when he was tap dancing; because he slipped
and fell in the bath.
The whole joke depends on the person who hears it NOT calling the thing
which the water comes out of
a faucet.
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