Subject: Re: another random language question
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Posted on: 2010-01-09 15:48:00 UTC
- Midwest USA
2. Yup
3. Sometimes, but not very often. I use 'bugger' more often than 'sodding'.
Subject: Re: another random language question
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Posted on: 2010-01-09 15:48:00 UTC
1.) US, Mid-Atlantic States
2.) Only in the sense that it's a negative adjective used for emphasis. I'd use it as a synonym for "cursed" or "dang'd"
3.) No, not in everyday speech. It's out of my dialect.
As far as I'm aware, and I'm most familiar with the word from Red Dwarf, it *does* mean that particular substance.
I recall seeing an interview with Craig Charles and Chris Barrie in which they recounted an amusing story from being on a panel at a convention: a small boy asked them 'what does 'smeg' mean?' and Chris Barrie actually crawled off stage rather than answer him.
Smeg sounds like a rude word to me, but that's because it's used as one on Red Dwarf.
For future reference, sod and bugger mean the same thing. Think the act of buggery and the sin of Sodom. Hence it's weird, as Trojie says, that sod isn't considered a bad word at all.
1) I'm in the northeast U.S., though not too far north.
2) Yes. I know that word quite well, thanks to Harry Potter and the fanfictions that I've read.
3) I sometimes use it, but not very often.
Bet the agents who took on that particular mission had a shock. Or an aneurysm.
mid-east in the Deep South, U.S. (but I lived in the U.K. until 2001.)
Yes, I tend to use it when I'm annoyed with someone. Smeg is another good word. or Flargnogg. (you have to be creative when working with small children who delight in repeating words they aren't meant to hear.)
I'll use "sod" sometimes when I'm annoyed with someone, but that's the extent. I imagine it comes from "sodomy"? And you know where I am ;)
1) New Zealand
2) Yes. And frequently bemused by the fact that despite its literal meaning, it's not considered a Bad Word here. Although then again, neither is 'bugger'.
3) Alllll the time.
1) Just upstairs from you, Padsy.
2) More so than I was earlier, after hearing you list the words you wanted to use that the censors were blocking.
3) Sometimes.