Noticed not many people use curse words.

So… why the fuck not?

  • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I’m an American and I throw cunt out often enough. I’m from Jersey though and we curse a bunch, and I also was in the Marines, where we cursed a lot. It’s where I picked up the phrase cunt hair, as in the unit of measurement.

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      11 months ago

      Ah, Finnish army also has (or at least had) that unit of measurement, “pillukarva”, literally pussy hair.

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        11 months ago

        Is karva related to the Polish kurwa? I’m American and you guys are close to each other in my uneducated estimation, and so I feel like there’s gotta be something there right? And oldest profession is an old word.

        Merry Christmas, and thanks for the new word.

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          11 months ago

          I doubt. Karva is just any hair, except hair on head (facial hair is still karva though it has also specific words too).
          Animal hair can also be karva, but only when it’s “fallen off” such as dog or cat hair sticking your clothes

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          10 months ago

          It sounds similar, but karva is hair. Finnish and Polish are pretty far apart as far as European languages go. Merry Christmas!