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Motek

Sun, Sep 10 2006, 6:03 pm

Twice last week, posters used the word "sucks". Now I thought this word is vulgar (check out the dictionary and see what the slang means ...) yet I don't think these posters meant to be vulgar!

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Nomad

Sun, Sep 10 2006, 6:07 pm

I checked (dictionary.com)- lol

eh - ill continue using it anyway

chocolate moose

Sun, Sep 10 2006, 6:23 pm

yes. it's vulgar.

I won't use it in front of you, okay?

chavamom

Sun, Sep 10 2006, 7:34 pm

I never considered it vulgar, just slang for 'really bad', until someone told me recently that it is. I'm not sure what to think!

Ruchel

Sun, Sep 10 2006, 10:09 pm

I used the French equivalent, less vulgar because it means "smelling bad", not doing you know what. In English, I'll only use it if the person in front of me used it before.

sarahd

Mon, Sep 11 2006, 5:12 am

I guess many posters are not aware of the actual meaning of the word. I once used a word in conversation, having no idea at all of its s-xual connotation, and was mortified when informed of the origin of the expression.

happy2beme

Mon, Sep 11 2006, 9:21 am

I never use it & was extremely shocked when I heard a 6 y o use it.

but, I'm a little confused. when I went to dictionary.com it had many definitions, some bad but one was that it just means something is extremely offensive.

isn't that the same idea as using other words that have 2 meanings- one bad & one good? I.e., hardcore- it could mean hardcore p-rn or someone who is very dedicated
??

chocolate moose

Mon, Sep 11 2006, 9:47 am

the word "hardcore" became much less than it used to, too.

chen

Mon, Sep 11 2006, 11:12 am

when used to describe what a vacuum cleaner does it's just fine. when used as a term of contempt it is quite vulgar, though many people don't realize that.

Mitzvahmom

Mon, Sep 11 2006, 11:19 am

My kids had to go to daycare during the interum days of camp and school

my youngest came home saying hate embarrassed

Now he says it soo much, and I do not knwo how to stop him..

Motek

Tue, Sep 12 2006, 4:34 pm

happy2beme wrote:

isn't that the same idea as using other words that have 2 meanings- one bad & one good? I.e., hardcore- it could mean hardcore p-rn or someone who is very dedicated
??

No. Because the word "hardcore" is not a problem. It's when it is used TOGETHER with the word "[filth]" that the word hardcore means "explicit." The word hardcore is not vulgar!

chocolate moose

Tue, Sep 12 2006, 4:41 pm

Yeah, well, those became the meanings. rightly or wrongly.

jewgal84

Tue, Sep 12 2006, 4:44 pm

Don't use it and I don't like the sound fo it either way.

What about the word "screwed", lately it's being used and not for the cork kinda screw.

She's so screwed, or he screwed things up.

Motek

Tue, Sep 12 2006, 5:23 pm

jewgal84 wrote:

She's so screwed, or he screwed things up.

Good example, similar to "sucks."

I've used "screwed things up" because it means messed things up. I never heard it used like that "she's so screwed" before. Probably best to avoid "screwed" too.

Speaking of vulgar language, I've heard and read on amother, people using "pissed off" and yes, that's vulgar. Not in the s-xual way but in the bathroom way. Confused

realeez

Tue, Sep 12 2006, 6:16 pm

Motek wrote:

jewgal84 wrote:

She's so screwed, or he screwed things up.

Good example, similar to "sucks."

I've used "screwed things up" because it means messed things up. I never heard it used like that "she's so screwed" before. Probably best to avoid "screwed" too.

I always am surprised & shocked to hear frum ppl use these terms and was once very surprised to see it in a frum publication (of course an apology was given the next week!). I always think people just don't know any better. Confused

thanks motek (I corrected both the mistakes- the one you noticed & the other one! Smile

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jewgal84

Tue, Sep 12 2006, 6:30 pm

Motek wrote:

jewgal84 wrote:

She's so screwed, or he screwed things up.

I fnd that many people are using the word screwed as in "messed things up".

Yet there are those, probably most from the teenagers, which are using the term screwed in a s-xual way. Ie: He screwed her, She's screwed up or he and she are so screwed Exclamation

I dislike the word "pissed" as well, and it is def. not in my vocabulary!

chocolate moose

Tue, Sep 12 2006, 6:39 pm

Pissed can be "stinking drunk".

chocolate moose

Tue, Sep 12 2006, 6:46 pm

Years back, I had issues with a man who used to abbreviate assistant, well, inappropriately.

I told him that, and he said, where he was from (Scotland, I think) that that word is not inappropriate, they have another word for that.

I dare not write them out here.

jewgal84

Tue, Sep 12 2006, 6:50 pm

SaraG wrote:

Pissed can be "stinking drunk".

So say he's drunk, why add the word "piss"?

The word they use for "stinking drunk", that I'm aware of, is "smashed", little less vulgar, don't you think?

chocolate moose

Tue, Sep 12 2006, 7:11 pm

To you. Not to them. The Irish or UK or whomever use that word.

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