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« on: February 25, 2012, 07:51:02 PM »

It's an offence to language, first of all. English has enough words to describe that.
Be imaginative! Use seldom used words! Take full use of the subtilities of your language!
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« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2012, 04:47:56 AM »

Benoit: It would be "in cervisia veritas", then. Like in cervoise (see Asterix) or cervesa, for people liking vacations in Mexico/Cuba/Dominican Republic.

I would like to add than enculé isn't only Marseillais. I know a guy from Ariège which use it all the time.
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« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2012, 01:22:11 AM »

I think it is was more offensive, yet, it is very used, in a non-malicious way.
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« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2012, 10:18:28 PM »

Sa langue, angus, not son langue.

Apparently, someone decided than a tongue was female.
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« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2012, 10:36:30 PM »

I think Antonio was trying to say that gay people don't use "straight" the way straight people use "gay"--as a synonym for stupid. I personally have never heard a gay person say "Ugh I hate work...it's so straight!" or "it's so hetero!"

(because we all know gay people have more class than straight people, fact.)

I meant that I find the use of a word like "straight" to qualify heterosexuals to be pretty disparaging toward homosexuals, by suggesting that heterosexuality is the straight practice and that others are deviant.

I think you are being "more catholic than the Pope" here. No gay person seems to be annoyed by that use of straight, yet, you seem outraged by it.
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