Her use of the word "retard" does seem odd to me, though. To my British ear, it wouild normally sound worse than the word "cunt", for examp.
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@PhilosophyExp more common, less "sweary" in my experience.
@NotungSchwert @Metamagician This might be generational. The word "spastic" was used when I was growing up. Again, worse than "cunt".
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@PhilosophyExp We still use spastic, as far as I'm aware. Wasn't aware that it was negative. :(@NotungSchwert@Metamagician -
@BirdTerrifier@NotungSchwert@Metamagician See the bit on UK & Ireland here: http://bit.ly/18YvhXU -
@PhilosophyExp Thanks. I've been called Chaz the Spaz very many times and didn't think about its origins.@NotungSchwert@Metamagician -
@BirdTerrifier@PhilosophyExp@Metamagician Well that Wiki article claims that 'spaz' isn't that bad in the US. So you might be ok! -
@NotungSchwert@BirdTerrifier@PhilosophyExp@Metamagician I might point out lots of words get gentrified. -
@Dianora_1@NotungSchwert@BirdTerrifier@Metamagician Yeah. It's a genetic fallacy to suppose origins are *necessarily* key.
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@PhilosophyExp@NotungSchwert@Metamagician it's regional too. "cunt" is considered nasty in N.A. -
@Dianora_1 In many contexts, "cunt" is highly taboo in the UK. But breaking taboos isn't necessarily a bad thing, so in that sense...
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@PhilosophyExp@NotungSchwert But I'm enough that my school days - 1960s and early 1970s - were prior to notions of political correctness. -
@Metamagician@NotungSchwert Yeah. Political correctness began to emerge in my later teen years. An important corrective, at the time. -
@PhilosophyExp@Metamagician I suppose it was a good lesson for us too because it gets you thinking like that. 1/2
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@PhilosophyExp@Metamagician yep we had "spastic" too, until my late teens I think. -
@NotungSchwert@PhilosophyExp In my day (at school) "retard" as a noun did not exist. But we had spaz, etc. But "cunt" was a fighting word.
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@PhilosophyExp@NotungSchwert Well, I'm older than either of you. But it can't just be age. On "cunt" see: http://www.skepticink.com/hellfireclub/2013/04/02/the-dreaded-c-word/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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