Well for fuck's sake.
Sometimes expressions really get me thinking. I was in a class yesterday and the instructor let the fuck word slip out then he said, "Pardon my French". When did that become French? I mean fuck. I'm no linguist and I don't even pretend that I occasionally play one on TV or in live theater, but that word doesn't sound French.
First off I can look at it and immediately I know how to pronounce it. Fuck... I don't even need my trusty phonics, but hell it would work if I did. Not "ette" at the end. Like I said I'm no expert but if you get to say all the letters then it isn't fucking French.
So how did they opt all the cuss words in an one time? Shit is not French either, I'm quite sure the word in French starts with an M and actually has letters you don't get say.
Secondly why pardon it at all. No kids in the room and we say it all the fucking time. Also I'm sure he doesn't have any afliction that causes him to cuss at random, so he meant to say it. He didn't look at all sorry when he said, "Pardon my French". (Does the period go inside the quote mark? I'm not that far in the punctuation book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves. I did it both ways once above the other way to make sure I wasn't wrong twice. I'm sure I'm wrong at least once though) So we chalk that part up to saying sorry when you aren't sorry at all. If you said it, you said it, just move on, k?
fuck
First off I can look at it and immediately I know how to pronounce it. Fuck... I don't even need my trusty phonics, but hell it would work if I did. Not "ette" at the end. Like I said I'm no expert but if you get to say all the letters then it isn't fucking French.
So how did they opt all the cuss words in an one time? Shit is not French either, I'm quite sure the word in French starts with an M and actually has letters you don't get say.
Secondly why pardon it at all. No kids in the room and we say it all the fucking time. Also I'm sure he doesn't have any afliction that causes him to cuss at random, so he meant to say it. He didn't look at all sorry when he said, "Pardon my French". (Does the period go inside the quote mark? I'm not that far in the punctuation book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves. I did it both ways once above the other way to make sure I wasn't wrong twice. I'm sure I'm wrong at least once though) So we chalk that part up to saying sorry when you aren't sorry at all. If you said it, you said it, just move on, k?
fuck
posted by J.R. at 7:40 AM
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I was just musing on how much I love the word "fuck." It's so expressive, and it always conveys exactly how I feel.
The point is this: The Brits put the terminal punctuation outside the quotation mark if it's not part of the quote, but Americans typically put it inside the quote mark (there are a few exceptions, which I can go into at length, if you're into that sort of thing).
"Merde" (French for 'shit') is pronounced : Mare-deh
So... you do actually do get to pronounce all the letters in that one. :)
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