"Bugger" is also a very mild slang term in the US, and many of the entries here using it seem more like Separated by a Common Language than this trope.
I recently read a news story about Marvel comics getting embarrassed because they introduced a new Filipino-American character but they accidently gave her a name that sounds like something inappropriate in Filipino/Tagalog.
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Um, I'm Vietnamese and I've never head of the phrase ''du manh yiu". In fact, I don't think there's a phrase that directly translate to "Go fuck yourself". Can someone elaborate?
Can we clean up the Real Life section? It's super long, and sometimes repeats the same things from a different angle (Like German/Norwegian use of shit: first example explains how they take from English television and apply that when they're tourists in America; then another example mentions the same thing then discusses the similarities between their own terms and how they screw up the offensive level thanks to that).
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I humbly suggest that the Bt VS entry that the two-finger salute Spike gives is entirely appropriate to his "dirty, evil, punk rock, and dead" character persona, and belongs in the "getting past the radar" category rather than "didn't do".
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(The Sonic example under Video Games) Why is a gesture with thumb, index finger, and middle finger extended obscene?
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I don't know about the thumb. I know that biting your thumb is still as offensive as it was in Shakespeare's day, and the two-fingered salute is, as you say, 'flipping someone off'. So's the middle finger. It depends where your hand is for it to be obscene with the thumb also extended. If it's by the head then, yeah, don't do it.
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Um, when has bloody ever been considered proper swearing? I live in England and to be honest it's more on the level of damn than an actual real swearword.
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Abrieviation of 'By Our Lady,' apparently, which I believe meant it basically used to be referring to the Virgin Mary - Roughly equivalent to "Jesus Christ" as an explicative to Catholics, then, and one of those things that died as being a major slur when swearing went from being mostly religious oriented to mostly body part and action oriented, apparently, getting considered as mild as it did in part because no bugger remembers what it actually means. All IIRC, of course.
Certainly not since the 50s, at least, has it been considered a proper swear, though.
I've heard that it's derived from "blood of Christ", and used as a blasphemy similar to "G*d damn".
Where in England you from. I know people that use bloody as a generic term. If I ever say it, though, it's as an adjective (e.g. The Bloody Tower) because something is, well, bloody. I always iterate that because, though not swearing, I don't think it's very polite and I know people that believe it is swearing and hearing it makes their blood boil. Also, Catholics are the main enforcers of never, ever, saying it. The country is now divided on whether it is a swear word or not, as some believe it is a swear word rooted in blasphemy and all those who curse it be condemned to Hell and some use it in casual conversation.
British inward V sign: I thought that by itself it was not offensive; in order to be properly delivered, the hand must be thrust upward. Often with raspberries. See also Are You Being Served where this was occasionally done. (Along with plenty of "my pussy" jokes. Clearly a post-watershed show!)
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Don't try to be funny. It's very offensive in Britain, even just by itself.
To answer Mmm Kay?'s question from the archived discussion: Gosh darn?
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...Either God darn or Gosh damn, I think. Bloody is, well, bloody mild, but certainly an echelon above heck, more akin to the other bloody mild swears that no-one would think anything of outside of stuff aimed at under 7s such as damn and hell.
As someone from the UK, this page feels very much written by Americans without much actual experience with UK culture.
A lot of examples on this page are *vastly* overstating how rude some words are in the UK, particularly bloody and bugger (when used as a noun, rather than a verb). A recent Ofcom study indicated that both are considered among the mildest curses and most people consider them OK to use around children: https://www.indy100.com/viral/british-swear-word-ranked-offensiveness-2659905092
I would honestly suggest removing instances of "bloody" and "bugger" on this page unless a creator was forced to make a change as a result.
Also worth noting that "f*g" and "f*ggot", while having other meanings in the UK, have also been used as slurs in the same manner as in the US for decades, so it is extremely unlikely that any British person using it is innocent of the knowledge that it is also used as hate speech.
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-surprisingly-complex-legacy-of-brits-saying-bum-a-fag
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