WIMH, I rather liked the old image but if you're the same person, what's the difference.Wind In My Hair wrote:And they tell us they are here to show us what culture and good breeding isIOP wrote:I work with British and Aussies in the office, and it's high pressure on my ears, because they scolding too much.
So nice looking guys with so bad words in their mouth.
There are certain words that are 10x more offensive to north Americans than to British, the c-word being one of them. It's considered probably to be the most coarse and offensive word a person could utter, aside from racial epithets, so I'm not surprised your co-worker was called out for using it in reference to a colleague. Your co-worker could probably have used the word 'f@cktard' to better effect, I'm guessing, than the other. I believe there may be comparable words used in Britain that don't have the same punch in the USA, like bugger, for instance. In USA it generally means a pest, without any sexual connotations.QRM wrote:If the OP was saying scolding as in swearing then thats happens all the time, every third word from a contractor in the UK is a swear word.
Depend on which part of the word, I find the American very intolerant of swearing, a chum working on one of the big banks in NY was pulled into HR and given a formal warning. A passenger in the office lift overheard his conversation where he describe a another college as a cnut.
I was pulled on a US forum for using the word "retard"! should be mentally challenged or a person with learning difficulties, ha the big irony I was actually calling myself a retard in the post.
No wonder alot of Amercians all got upset with Ricky Gervas stint as MC.
I assure that if you call someone c**t in the UK you are likely to get into a lot of trouble. Although it does depend on the context and the setting, if you called one of your mates a c**t in the pub, then its not gonna be an issue.poodlek wrote:There are certain words that are 10x more offensive to north Americans than to British, the c-word being one of them. It's considered probably to be the most coarse and offensive word a person could utter, aside from racial epithets, so I'm not surprised your co-worker was called out for using it in reference to a colleague. Your co-worker could probably have used the word 'f@cktard' to better effect, I'm guessing, than the other. I believe there may be comparable words used in Britain that don't have the same punch in the USA, like bugger, for instance. In USA it generally means a pest, without any sexual connotations.QRM wrote:If the OP was saying scolding as in swearing then thats happens all the time, every third word from a contractor in the UK is a swear word.
Depend on which part of the word, I find the American very intolerant of swearing, a chum working on one of the big banks in NY was pulled into HR and given a formal warning. A passenger in the office lift overheard his conversation where he describe a another college as a cnut.
I was pulled on a US forum for using the word "retard"! should be mentally challenged or a person with learning difficulties, ha the big irony I was actually calling myself a retard in the post.
No wonder alot of Amercians all got upset with Ricky Gervas stint as MC.
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