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Religion and Ethics Discussion => Philosophy, in all its guises. => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on May 24, 2017, 04:54:46 PM

Title: The philosophy of swearing
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 24, 2017, 04:54:46 PM

So many of my fellow Glaswegians would get a Ph(uck).D in this


https://iainews.iai.tv/articles/on-swearing-and-philosophy-an-interview-with-rebecca-roache-auid-832

Title: Re: The philosophy of swearing
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on May 29, 2017, 08:12:36 PM

Quote from: Nearly Sane on May 24, 2017, 04:54:46 PM

So many of my fellow Glaswegians would get a Ph(uck).D in this


https://iainews.iai.tv/articles/on-swearing-and-philosophy-an-interview-with-rebecca-roache-auid-832

There is a splendid line in Noel Coward's Bittersweet, sung by the quartet of footman "What we mean by very good is go to hell". I sung that as a young man in 1977, and I have used that as a maxim throughout my working life in service industries. Speak in your own code, you are making fun of them & they don't know it.