I'm aware, I spend a lot of time in the company of the worst types of people trying to pull them out of the dirt. Its why I originally tried to be a therapist in my younger days.
Perhaps its effected my perception of the world more than I thought, but I also find "bred" to still be more animalistic than need be when applied to humans.
There are plenty of innocuous terms that depending on the context you use them in can have very different meanings. You shouldn't allow your use and perception of language to be controlled by that.
Let's take 'cunt' for example. Although to be fair that one isn't an innocuous term anywhere but call someone a cunt in the US you might end up in the hospital. Call someone a cunt in Scotland or Australia and you'll end up with a drinking buddy. You have to adapt depending on where you are and who you talk to. Context is key.
Context still matters here in Scotland, and likely down in Oz, too. We use cunt for a lot of things which may be positive or negative depending just how it's said and what else might be mentioned at the time.
You shouldn't allow your use and perception of language to be controlled by that.
Well in this case, I hadn't ever heard it used in this manner. As has been pointed out its both old fashioned and/or regional. It was simply being uncultured about a minor point of language. The kind of thing "that's how we say it back home" clears up.
And in doing so, we all had a discussion where we learned a little bit, as Cato sourced it used to be highly used and then stopped and was replaced with the now much more common "and raised" variant.
I'm happy to look stupid for a moment to learn something new, I think people being too afraid of such is how we end up so boxed in and rigid to begin with.
You didn't look stupid. There are so many cultural differences within the English language to know them all you would have to dedicate your entire life.
That’s because you’re too proximate to degeneracy lol
I'm aware, I spend a lot of time in the company of the worst types of people trying to pull them out of the dirt. Its why I originally tried to be a therapist in my younger days.
Perhaps its effected my perception of the world more than I thought, but I also find "bred" to still be more animalistic than need be when applied to humans.
There are plenty of innocuous terms that depending on the context you use them in can have very different meanings. You shouldn't allow your use and perception of language to be controlled by that.
Let's take 'cunt' for example. Although to be fair that one isn't an innocuous term anywhere but call someone a cunt in the US you might end up in the hospital. Call someone a cunt in Scotland or Australia and you'll end up with a drinking buddy. You have to adapt depending on where you are and who you talk to. Context is key.
Context still matters here in Scotland, and likely down in Oz, too. We use cunt for a lot of things which may be positive or negative depending just how it's said and what else might be mentioned at the time.
Obviously. Context always matters. But in the US it's the 'c-word'. People don't really use it in a positive context.
Well in this case, I hadn't ever heard it used in this manner. As has been pointed out its both old fashioned and/or regional. It was simply being uncultured about a minor point of language. The kind of thing "that's how we say it back home" clears up.
And in doing so, we all had a discussion where we learned a little bit, as Cato sourced it used to be highly used and then stopped and was replaced with the now much more common "and raised" variant.
I'm happy to look stupid for a moment to learn something new, I think people being too afraid of such is how we end up so boxed in and rigid to begin with.
You didn't look stupid. There are so many cultural differences within the English language to know them all you would have to dedicate your entire life.
women are animals.