[UA] School sketches (long)

[James Palmer]

>
> >I almost said shit, but I didn't, as it seems kind of awkward to me to 
>use
>foreign curse >words. It's as if I'm trying to be something I'm not, trying
>to show my cool to all you >native English speakers. And that brings me
>nicely to the cultural differences.
>
>I'm trying to remember where I read the good bit about how people can only
>swear well in their own language.  It had an example of a Quebecois saying
>something like "I'm so to fucking sick of these American fuckers of their
>own mothers coming to our country" or some such.
>

Ben Elton, THIS OTHER EDEN, I think.

There's actually a book called 'English as a Second Fucking Language,' which 
I've been thinking of buying for a Dutch friend of mine who is the habit of 
saying 'Oh, bloody fucking heck.'

J.
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