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To: LoneClone who wrote (45850)7/28/2007 12:07:50 PM
From: koan  Respond to of 78426
 
I am more of a "John from Cincinatte type guy-lol.



To: LoneClone who wrote (45850)7/28/2007 12:17:17 PM
From: Metacomet  Respond to of 78426
 
Well said, and absolutely correct, IMO...



To: LoneClone who wrote (45850)7/28/2007 1:21:24 PM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 78426
 
Swearing is very mood specific. In the hippy days, the stronger adjectival words were devoted to the good things in their parlance.

You rarely heard, f -in dope, f-in acid, f-in pigs, or f-in hassle. dope, acid, pigs, and hassle were strong enough unless the unfortunate was really bugged, or bummed out or they had primo ultimo.

but you did hear f-man, this is f-in wonderful, as in 'wow! f-in far out'. 'f- man have you lost your mind'.. if they were really bugged and it as a real effin hassle, they might say, 'have you lost your f-in mind'? or 'don't f with me'. if it was 'an f-in time' joy was indicated however. what an f-in hassle might involve an interview or raid by the pigs. f-in pigs might indicate a plant artist

biker talk, relating to their rather jagged lifelstyle and drug choices was decidely more profane perhaps at times harsh and aggressive even to the point of being gratuitous.

f had to be casual good. in reference to the premier anglo saxon reproductive activity, 'put out or lay' trumped f in emotional appeal. 'does he f' was considered comical in effect.

swearing is music. you had to have the right touch, an ironic deftness of usage, a subtlety of mood and place, to imply what some archaic reference meant to the in the know in modern times.

I think the reason is that the generation was prone to inventing their own lingo which they felt described unique experience so its lexicon was enuff expression, and adding the straight culture's ultimates to their peaks watered them down.

EC<:-}