[Closed] Is the C word the most offensive word

It may be the most offensive single word, but all the best / worst swears are when words are used in combinations

I reckon pedohomonecronegrocryobeastiality is pretty close.

pedohomonecronegrocryobeastiality

I think I have their first album...

I dont know why the c word is considered so offensive, I only really avoid it when in the presence of women or at work.

When I first started at my current place, all the blokes tried to avoid swearing at all around me (the industry I'm in is male dominated, something like 94% of staff are male). However we were playing Call of Duty at lunchtime and I happened to drop the C-bomb in reference to one of the coders who'd spend the entire time camping on a rooftop with a sniper rifle. First there was shock, then there was relief. Silly gooses!

meh, I like vaginabloodfart, as a derogatory term, not as an event

I don't find language or words offensive. Just peoples meaning or intention. You can easily say something really nasty, hurtful and spiteful without swearing. My mates and I call each other all sorts of c+++y words all the time, it's a form of understanding, acknowledgment and respect! Ya bastards!

The 'c' word can't be said with any conviction by Americans.

Or southerners.

Put your money where your big gob is, and come dahyn ear, and find ahyt.

You'll be crying like a little girl and willuv messed yer knickers by the time we're finished with yer....

I managed to stop traffic on Fifth Avenue in New York, using the 'C' word. 🙂

I later discovered it is not a word to use publicly in the US....

I remember a line on Spaced that went along the lines of -

"Look at the C**t in the leotard..."
"That word is violently offesive to women"
"I say C**nt all the time"
"I was talking about leotard"

Oi Kev get on Skypes so's I can swear at yer, innit? 😀

Go on; like what we used to do!

You're ded.

No, [i]you're[/i] ded.

No you are.

No you are cos I killed you to death.

Etc.

Penny for your thoughts

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny/2011/02/sexual-power-word-****-hint

try this

you'll have to edit the **** for the subject of this topic

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Elfinsafety - Member

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😕 Didn't you read this bit : [i]"you'll have to edit the **** for the subject of this topic"[/i] ?

The url won't clear STW's swear filter.

Didn't you read this bit : "you'll have to edit the **** for the subject of this topic" ?

Clearly not! 😆

What an [i]idiot[/i].

😮

Before this develops into an argument, that line was added after elf's post

"a nasty name for a nasty thing"

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Oh, I'm [i]not[/i] an idiot then??? 😀

I'd like to hear Julia Bradbury saying it on Countryfile. I'd like to hear Kirsty Young saying it on Desert Island Discs.

Oooh....

I'm a little overcome. 😳

Or southerners.

That's because "fahkin caaaahnt" doesn't have the same gravitas.

Swearing doesn't work until you get north of Birmingham. Once you get into the north-west and north-east of England and up into Scotland, then you get some properly creative, enunciated and delivered portmanteau swearing, despite what Guy Ritchie would have you believe.

well considering nearly all the swear words used in the uk are anglo saxon, you need a hard germanic twang to really pull it off with conviction.

I think you'll find that the C-word first made its appearance several centuries after the arrival of the Normans.

Of course it was once a much more acceptable word, as this shows :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grope****_Lane

I think you may find the etymology of the C word is from proto gemanic and old norse according the OED

Wun....

....Undred!!!!!!! 😀

And all because the lady loves....

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That's because "fahkin caaaahnt" doesn't have the same gravitas.

Swearing doesn't work until you get north of Birmingham. Once you get into the north-west and north-east of England and up into Scotland, then you get some properly creative, enunciated and delivered portmanteau swearing, despite what Guy Ritchie would have you believe.

Tish and piffle. You just want Northern Swearing to be 'better' than Southern swearing, cos you have an inferiority complex. The C word is at it's snarling, vicious best when said in a London accent. No argument. Ask this bloke:

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Although I will concede that 'bastard' sounds best inna Norvern stylee...

Well maybe tazzymtb, but the C-word is remarkably simular to the Latin word "cunnus" which means exactly the same thing.

Of course I'm sure the Romans were far too civilised and polite to bring over any sweary words with them.

oooh! I'm scared

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I don't think it's from Norse, as their word is totally different. 'Fitte', as far as I've bin told.

I think Ernie is closer with the Latin derivation. The Spainish and Portuguese words especially, reinforce this theory.

You just want Northern Swearing to be 'better' than Southern swearing,

I neither want nor need any such thing. I'm comfortable in my sweariality.

oooh! I'm scared

Yeah; scared to admit that us lot down ear can do anything better than youse lot.

Get over it Girlfriend; it's happened. Move on.

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I don't think it's from Norse, as their word is totally different. 'Fitte', as far as I've bin told.

"Kunta" actually chap from the old norse which became kunte in danish

Yeah; scared to admit that us lot down ear can do anything better than youse lot.

I reckon you Southerners may be better t using that word than we others. But given the high density of ****s don there, you have more opportunity to practise

(Self-combusts, then Explodes)

"Kunta" actually chap from the old norse which became kunte in danish

Fair enough, you could be right there. I do know the modern Norwegian word is different though.

Norwegian Wood is different to Amazonian Wood.

FACT.

[i]Jackie is juuust speeding away....[/i]

which became kunte in danish

So the Danes named one of their kings after their word for female genitalia ?

Well I learn something everyday on here.

Actually, has anyone ever had anyone watch them poop? As an adult, mind.

A mate did, on returning from holiday in India. He'd ingested a fair quantity of finest hashish, wrapped in condoms, and UK Customs ossifers thought he looked well dodgy (a fair assumption to be honest), so took him into custody. Then when he wanted to 'go', they made him do it in a bowl, so's they could inspect the contents. Two Customs blokes watched him intently (to prevent him re-ingesting passed contraband 😯 ), and he said it took him a while...

Apparently, they're only legally allowed to hold a person for one defecation cycle, so let him go. Fortunately, he was that bunged up, that none of the precious was passed, so he got away free as a bird. Which was a bit of a bonus really.

T'was some of the finest hash I have ever smoked. The phrase 'good shit' was never truer.... 8)

(Self-combusts, then Explodes)

😀 Do I win!??

Is this a good time to mention that your username has always made think of the word "Cunnilingus" CharlieMungus ?

He doesn't like it if you call him Char[u]les[/u]Mungus, I've discovered. 🙂

Dunno why not. Seems a bit precious if you ask me.

Ooh I right fancy some chocolate I do.

(Scuttles off to look in fridge)

[i]Darkness imprisoning me
All that I see
Absolute horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body my holding cell[/i]

You are the One, Elfin.

(Can I call you Fred? Everyone else seems to)

If you must. 🙄

Elfin: I could spend ages slagging you off and calling you all kinds of c***ty names under the sun. But I've got to go to work boredom. You CWORD! what's with the metallica?

your post is fekin class mate lols!

Am I still the only username worthy of being used as a term of abuse worse than the c and mf words? I don't know whether to laugh or laugh a bit more. Good old lodders, champion of the downtrodden....

that is called attention seeking iDave

I'd rather be called a **** than a Piers Morgan

I like how the word ****ing has entered our (my) language. As if one can be in the act of ****.

E.g. Dropping a freshly made sandwich..."Jesus ****ing Christ!"

The absurdity takes the offensive edge off.

Or to call someone a ****ing little bastard. It's like the double negative of swearing.

I'll **** off now 😀

Ah, auto censor. It should read c-word+ing. As in Good Will Hunting.

He doesn't like it if you call him CharlesMungus, I've discovered

[b][i]You[/i][/b] discovered? Like Columbus discovered America maybe!

Since when has the vocal appreciation of the opposite sex been illegal?

....so surely girl having a middle aged bloke talking to her for 5 mins would have been "better"? 😉 🙂

They've just called last orders at my local too hora 😀
So there's this girl I met again today who I really like. Last time I met her was about 2 months ago, previously about a year. Because of her job it will be unlikely that our paths will cross again in the near future. She doesn't seem completely repulsed by me, but because I'm shy and bashful, I failed to say it would be great to meet you again.
I could probably find her email address, and email her, that it would be great to meet up next time she's about, but would that appear weird and desperate (I am slightly weird and desperate if this helps), or should I play it cool and wait another year, and hope that I've grown some in the mean time?
With all your flash grenade experience I'm hoping you can advise.

Northerners swearing and especially using the c-word sound too soft.
The accents take away the harshness that is needed for swearing to be effective.

To my ears they make the c-word become like the f-word alternative as used in Father Ted and it loses its power.

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You must know some funny Northerners. It sounds like "can't" in Southern to me.

WTF did you revive this Hora ?

(and does your vocal appreciation involve the word "c***" ?

You must know some funny Northerners. It sounds like "can't" in Southern to me.

That's only if it's said by a Northerner doing a bad Dick Van Dyke cockerney accent!

Meecrob

Cougar - Member
You must know some funny Northerners. It sounds like "can't" in Southern to me.

You're saying it wrong dude, it should sound like 'Kent' as in 'Bench of Kents'

Not cool to rhyme with hunt.

Offensive to whom? In general or to say to an individual? Personal comments are far more offensive I find.
Calling a woman 'fat' or 'ugly' will offend more than the 'C' word. Add two or more of these words together though and you will really sicken them! 😆

It's all about context, surely?