Being Crude in English.

From: Mark Odegard
Message: 5292
Date: 2001-01-04

It is a usuality that the English language is rather poor in 'crude'
terms. I would agree with the statement.

English, like all the major languages of the world, can salaciously
cope with the world's oldest profession, and every possible 'position'
associated with it.

But for cursing, for delivering a strong line of disapproval to
another, English really is lacking. English is poor when it comes to
cussing-out another.

We have the George Carlin sequence (do a web search), which gives us
all the naughty words.

But telling one man off? Polish is pro'lly better. Since few men
really are muhfuhs (and this being about the most horrific thing you
can say to a male in English), my observation is that
native-English-speakers are hopelessly polite in comparison to other
languages.

English is perhaps the most polite of the world's current languages.

Is it perhaps that English is a language that is hopelessly
intertwined with the concept of the yeoman?