From the Australian writer John Hepworth:
It's twelve o'clock, not a whore in the house washed, and sailors ten deep in the hall!
And one from an ex-colleague:
That's about as useful as a cunt full of cold water to a drowning poof.
My better half, a Japanese who learned English as an adult, has a lot of trouble with swearing, particulatly the word fuck. He's just fine when we use it in its literal sense ("wanna fuck?") but somehow he's got it in his head that the swear-word version of fuck is fucking.
I didn't notice it at first because, gramatically, English speakers often swear with adjectives. eg. "This place is a fucking mess".
So, after a hard day I come home and shout "What a fucking day it's been!", to which he replies, "Yes, it's been very fucking."
DMW and other grammarians around here may suggest that I take such moments to explain how some gerunds may become descriptive adjectives but not predicate adjectives and vice versa, but fuck it. And so fucking has become our own personal favourite swear word.
Holy fucking! Is it that late? I gotta go.
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