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From: kay@flame.UUCP (Kay Dekker)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: The Queen's English (possibly offensive language)
Message-ID: <2172@flame.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 19:08:18 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 29 19:08:18 1985
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Reply-To: kay@flame.UUCP (Kay Dekker)
Organization: VLSI Group, Warwick University, UK
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In article <395@tymix.UUCP> kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner) writes:
>Getting around now to stronger language and obscene gestures (I think
>gestures come under net.nlang), the epithet "prick" is never applied to a
>male in the UK.  The proper word is "cunt."

Not so. "Prick" may be used in a fairly mild fashion, being rather stronger
than "twit".
"Cunt" is *always* used offensively.
							Kay.

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