bad language

Hope DD doesn't choose that for the new baby if it's a girl.

Bags

Quite innocent but I always find Blimey O'Reilly does the trick for me unless of course I am talking to an Irish Farmer in which case I leave out the O'Reilly, just in case!

No offence meant to any farmers or indeed anyone from Ireland.

I find it impossible difficult to use any of the "bad" swear words as they would sound stupid coming from me anyway.

Crikey bags, skimmed your replies and of course I get the (irrefutable) logic.

Thanks elegran.

#bitboredwiththisonenow

I think I might have said something beginning with f in the pub yesterday when I knocked over a wineglass. I was only being noble, too, giving grandson some of my meat.

Grandson didn't bat an eyelash btw.

(I guess that's bad actually! )

Blimey - short for gorblimey or "God blind me!" - Another religious oath!

How about using "Hell's teeth and buckets of blood!" my (non-swearing) mother's exclamation. Also "Jesus wept! - and well he might" - and she a church-going woman.

We don't need to swear, all we need do is poke jingl and she will do it for us

right-o.

JO7.....your grandson didn't bat an eyelid because, as I said before, young people have been so overexposed to the use of the word nowadays that it is just another word.the problem is that on gransnet there are still some people who find it upsetting,no matter what the context.But I will say no more.

He hasn't been "over-exposed"! Not even at school. Definitely.

He just knows quite well that it's something granny does/says sometimes, and that it is very naughty. And that mummy and daddy mustn't get to know about it. Under any circumstances.

Trouble is , Mummy and daddy usually DO get to hear of things .

Wow! We are being treated to a masterclass in swearing - a subject that I have not really thought about before. My vague understanding was that words such as f**k, c**t, a**e, S**t were Anglo-Saxon words, considered RUDE or vulgar in the same sense that the peasantry had rude clothes and dwellings ie 'rough and ready' and gentrified folk chose to use the Latin/French equivalents to show they were well bred. Other words such as Damn were curses so a real outburst of 'sweary words' is referred to as 'Cursing and Swearing' to include both. As children we were in severe trouble with teachers or parents for using any word deemed RUDE- which included bum, fart, rift, boobs, tits etc. However, I was grown up before there was condemnation for nigger, spaz, cripple, pouf etc. - all bandied about freely when I was young. Fascinating how WORDS - just a string of letters - can be offensive one minute and acceptable in polite society the next.

What is the Latin for fuck? And the French? please.

Would NEVER use those words you mention in last bit of that post. And I firmly believe grandsons never will.

I don't know what Latin speakers said, but I think 'copulate' is the one you're looking for, jings. Perhaps you could use cop instead of fuck.

The French word you're looking for J is baiser (pronounced bazay)

Butty

No! that's kiss. #letitgo#gettingrude

effing googled it!

...as in - a baiser in the hay!

...back to the ironing board...

good idea soop