{"id":322,"date":"2013-03-16T17:04:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T17:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/?p=322"},"modified":"2013-06-12T17:34:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T17:34:56","slug":"how-to-swear-proper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"How To Swear Proper"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Or: authentic British usage of swearwords<\/h2>\n<p>This is really simple; just use \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fuck\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\/\u00e2\u20ac\u0153fucking\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as punctuation as well as emphasis.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: my native dialect is West London, which to my ears has the most unpleasant of the London accents. However, I went to a public school, and most of the time I sound close to RP (Received Pronunciation, or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153BBC English\u00e2\u20ac\u009d), but with a slight nasal twang.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>All of the London regions use a similarly restricted palette of swearwords, and English usage in general doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t vary by all that much across the country. My favourite example would have to be a transcript from the <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.ihug.com.au\/~mdodshon\/troggs.html\">Trogg Tapes<\/a>; see Reg Presley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2013\/feb\/05\/reg-presley\">obituary<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2013\/feb\/05\/from-rocks-backpages-troggs-reg-presley\">other articles<\/a> in the Guardian for an example.<\/p>\n<p>A few comments on some alternative words:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153bloody\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is the general purpose mild adjective.<\/li>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153bugger\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is much more offensive than in American; it refers to the sex act, not insects.<\/li>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153cunt\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is rarely used (perhaps surprisingly), and is considered more offensive.<\/li>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153shit\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a popular, mild swear word.<\/li>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153motherfucker\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is American, and never used.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For Scots examples I would suggest browsing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=billy+connolly\">Billy Connolly<\/a> on YouTube, and for Irish try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=shane+mcgowan\">Shane McGowan<\/a>; however, Northern Irish is recognisably different in sound from Southern Irish.<\/p>\n<p>While we are discussing swearing, one American habit is more likely to cause British swearing than any other: talk about beer. We have beer, we have lager, and we have stout (or Guinness, almost synonymous) which are subsets of beer; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ale\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is not a word we use, unless by a CAMRA (the real ale society) member. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pale ale\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is said as if it were all one word. Beer is served at cellar temperature, which is cool, not frozen &#8211; and we could have a very similar discussion about correct serving temperatures for wine. Most red wine should be served at the temperature of a pre-central heating room, not warm like soup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or: authentic British usage of swearwords This is really simple; just use \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fuck\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\/\u00e2\u20ac\u0153fucking\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as punctuation as well as emphasis. Disclaimer: my native dialect is West London, which to my ears has the most unpleasant of the London accents. However, I went to a public school, and most of the time I sound close to RP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paullynch.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}