Date:         Sun, 6 Sep 2009 09:55:32 -0400
Reply-To:     Benny boy <huotb@VIDEOTRON.CA>
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From:         Benny boy <huotb@VIDEOTRON.CA>
Subject:      Re: M re: "damn"
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>

It's a big continent, some different culture at some point.
Here where i live (Quebec), we speak French and in general we swear a lot,
mostly religious words of course. Those words (EX: Tabernacle) would
probably make a few of you laugh but here, it's common and acceptable in
some ways.

If you stand beside me in my shop for a day you will have learn them all and
you will say them without perfect French pronunciation at the end of the
day, if I don't use them more than 500 time a day I'm lying.

So when i speak or write in English i look for something similar to
intensify the sentence. But i have learn that in many case it's not
acceptable. It's pretty funny that in all movie the F word is use with so
many variant.... It's like you have found a place to use it legally.

Ben
http://www.benplace.com/

On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 19:56:46 -0400, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:

>Dear Volks -- I'm a little squirmy about "damn."  There are people
>around (me included actually) who take cursing seriously, and that
>really stands for "May God condemn him/her/it to eternal torment"
>which is a pretty serious thing.  It's bad theology -- we don't
>believe God works that way -- but that's beside the point.  I'm going
>to have to rule it out of order, because if it makes me squirm a bit
>I'm surely not the only one.  Dam' or darn or dang or damnation or
>other such are fine, it's clear that it's either just an intensifier
>or definitely a play curse.  I'd rather not see dammit though, and
>definitely nothing with a G attached.
>
>As an aside, I have a certain sentimental fondness for "Well shoot
>fire ( I can say it sort of the way she did, but I can't spell
>it.  Sort like faaar with a little bit of i mixed in) and save
>matches!"  An oldish (must have been at least 40) head nurse I once
>served under used to say it from time to time.  It was so funny that
>I didn't make the connection for a long time.  Feel free.
>
>Thanks much,
>David