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In reply to the discussion: Australia's Opposition Leader Just Called A C**t In Parliament [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Three times someone made a completely unsupportable assertion about what you said (not that all of our comments are easily viewable or anything) followed by a last post moving the goalposts in an unintelligible direction.
This is not rocket science we are talking about, nor is what we are talking about new. In 1887 Irish novelist Oscar Wilde said "We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language."
That's how far back this discussion of the differences in the dialects of English goes. No less than 126 years. Nor is this kind of difference unique to English. There are several dialects of German, French, Spanish, Arabic and various other languages. There are different slang words in each language. A word that is completely fine to say in one dialect can be vulgar in another.
This was nothing to freak out about. No one said the usage was 'good' we just noted a cultural difference in which a word has an altered meaning and is not as offensive.
I guess what I am trying to say is that the reaction by some here is completely indefensible.