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Kooyeen Posted 19 years ago
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Goddammit
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00 I'd like to know if interjections like "Goddammit" and "Goddam" are more rude or taboo than I actually think. Those are two of my favorite expressions that I tend to use a lot, but I wonder how rude they are. For example, I know that "Damn", "Dammit" and "Oh my God" are widely accepted, but how would you rate "Goddammit" and "Goddam", also compared to other interjections? 02 br
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00 I'd like to know if interjections like "Goddammit" and "Goddam" are more rude or taboo than I actually think. Those are two of my favorite expressions that I tend to use a lot, but I wonder how rude they are. For example, I know that "Damn", "Dammit" and "Oh my God" are widely accepted, but how would you rate "Goddammit" and "Goddam", also compared to other interjections? 02 br
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0 Hi, 02 br 02 br 00 I wouldn't say these in school, or at the office, or in a job interview. Whether you say them in casual conversation to your friends is up to you. 02 br 02 br 00 Clive 0-
- 0 Hi, 02 br 02 br 00 I wouldn't say these in school, or at the office, or in a job interview.
- Whether you say them in casual conversation to your friends is up to you.
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00 I wouldn't say these in school, or at the office, or in a job interview. Whether you say them in casual conversation to your friends is up to you. 02 br
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00 I wouldn't say these in school, or at the office, or in a job interview. Whether you say them in casual conversation to your friends is up to you. 02 br
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0 Ah, so I see they are actually worse than just "****". 02 br
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01 cite 10 Kooyeen 12 cite 10 Ah, so I see they are actually worse than just "****". 12 br11 b 01 font 00 "Gosh darn-it" is a good substitute that offends nobody, I'm sure. 02 font 02 b 00 010id 1
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0 Yes, I'm not sure why, but "Oh my ***!" and "Dammit" are mostly okay (not in church, not at the job interview, etc. as Clive says) but "Goddammit" is really quite a big more offensive, at least where I grew up. Maybe it sounds more blasphemous and therefore offends our Puritan ancestry. 02 br
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00 My mother used to say, when exasperated, "Oh, *** bless America!" rather than
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00 My mother used to say, when exasperated, "Oh, *** bless America!" rather than
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It would be considered offensive in a religious sense because it is as if you are saying "**** be to ***" as if "damning" him to ****...it's as if you're directly cursing at Christian's beloved ***. So there's that. But those are the only people who would care.
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I don't agree that the idea is that you are damning ***.
When you say eg '******* Tom', you are really saying 'May *** **** Tom'.
In other words, you are inviting *** to do some damning.
Clive
When you say eg '******* Tom', you are really saying 'May *** **** Tom'.
In other words, you are inviting *** to do some damning.
Clive
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