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Sugar-Coated Cuss Words. Should a Christian say Gee?

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Tom Butler

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saturneptune said:
No, actually when I was growing up, lots of more well to do people would use that as an expression of frustration or a "sugar coated cuss word," and the expression "yes, it is obvioius" became the standard answer. It did not have a specific meaning, just how the recipient took it.
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Oh.



Never mind my previous answer, then.
 
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TC

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What language?

21. What does 'Uffda'' mean?
Uffda is a Norwegian exclamation relatively common in the Upper Midwestern United States. Meaning roughly 'drats' or 'oops' or 'ouch', especially if the 'ouch' is an emphatic one. The "U" is pronounced witha long sound, as in 'snooze'.
In midwestern Norwegian cultures, 'Uffda' translates into 'I am overwhelmed'. It still translates the same in some parts of Norway. Uffda is often used as a term for sensory overload. It can be used as an expression of surprise, astonishment, exhaustion or when one is relieved, after a difficult or exhausting task.
The term has been heard among men when a particularly unattractive woman enters a room. Uffda is still commonly used in contemporary Norwegian, being comprised of the sigh-related uff (sometimes huff) and da (meaning 'then'). It is sometimes spoken in a sympathetic sense to show compassion for somebody. For example, if a man has broken his leg, one might take a look at it, and then say, "Uffda, that doesn't look so good"- in this case being a slight understatement.
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from http://www.visitbemidji.com/bemidji/faq.htm
 
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TC

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I grew up listening to my grandma say that all the time. Even though she was Swedish, she was married to a Norwegian. No one I know speaks Norwegian any more, but uff da survives.
 
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SaggyWoman

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I say a few sugar coated ones. But I think I say ones that some people dont' think are and others do, depending on their age.
 
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Jim1999

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Tom,a whole week in London! That could be enough to corrupt you for life, especially in East London.

Crikey and Lord luv a duck are very common. Cor blimey is as well. It means God blind me. Many words used in rhyme may sound bad, but are quite innocent.

Guess this one: I'll write you a goose's for the burton, me china.

Cheers,

Jim
 
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Tom Butler

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Jim1999 said:
Tom,a whole week in London! That could be enough to corrupt you for life, especially in East London.

Crikey and Lord luv a duck are very common. Cor blimey is as well. It means God blind me. Many words used in rhyme may sound bad, but are quite innocent.

Guess this one: I'll write you a goose's for the burton, me china.

Cheers,

Jim
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I know there's such a thing as rhyming slang, but know only a couple of expressions. I first heard of it 35 years ago while interviewing a professor at a nearby university, who was a Cockney. He taught me "tit for tat--your hat." That's the extent of my vocabulary.

Now, about the line you wrote, I confess that I cheated and looked some of it up online. The translation I came up with is,

I'll write you a goose's neck (check) for the richard burton (curtain), me (my) china plate (mate).

I would never have guessed without cheating.

To keep this on the subject, some of the rhyming slang is pretty racy.
 
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Jim1999

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Tom, when I was in Chicago at the university, I had a three-bedroom flat to myself. A young lady arrived for school, but had nowhere to stay. I said I would bed her for the night. She slapped my face and left. The next day she apologized. Another English bloke explained that I was just offering her a place to stay that night. Some of our language may seem vulgar, but it is not. Some is very vulgar, I admit.

Brits are masters at double entendre and this leads to false thoughts about our language, especially Cockney Rhyme.

Cheers,

Jim

Keep your pecker up!
 
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Tom Butler

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Jim1999 said:
Tom, when I was in Chicago at the university, I had a three-bedroom flat to myself. A young lady arrived for school, but had nowhere to stay. I said I would bed her for the night. She slapped my face and left. The next day she apologized. Another English bloke explained that I was just offering her a place to stay that night. Some of our language may seem vulgar, but it is not. Some is very vulgar, I admit.

Brits are masters at double entendre and this leads to false thoughts about our language, especially Cockney Rhyme.

Cheers,

Jim

Keep your pecker up!
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Now before any of you get bent out of shape, Jim's last line is a perfectly innocent expression of encouragement. However, in America, it does not translate very well, similar to Jim's bedding a lady school mate for the night. I guarantee you, if I used any of those expressions at church in America, I'd be rebuked, big time. But the 88-year-old matriarch of my wife's Brit host family would have thanked me.

My wife Janice related a story by the matriarch's daughter, whose American friend got offended when someone told her that to help her get to her destination on time, he would knock her up in the morning.
He meant, of course, he would knock on her door to wake her up.


Jim, you crack me up. Just to be clear, I'm not talking about a plane crash.
 
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Jim1999

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Now Saturneptune.........To utter John Calvin in that tone is not only swearing at its worst, but blasphemie to be cock sure!

For shame, china plate, for shame!

Cheers,

Jim

OH yes, and to keep your pecker up is to keep smiling
 
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Jim1999

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Now I must go apples and visit uncle ted before hickory strikes 5...

See you all in t'morning.

Cheers,

Jim
 
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Dale-c

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webdog said:
I don't think WTF to be appropriate, since the meaning of this is quite clear.
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I would tend to agree. It is ironic how I almost always agree with Web on every topic except the one we have both argued in more than half of the time on here.

I suspect that would be the case with many of us on here.
 
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