There's a story that once Mark Twain's wife got sick of his swearing and decided to make a point about it by swearing all the time around him. Eventually he said "My dear, you know the words, but not the music"
That's how I feel every time I read one of those compound-swear posts
That was the source of an early antipathy I had towards The Day Today and Brasseye.
Whatever those shows did well, you were never 100% safe from things like "roboplegic wrongcock." Admittedly this is deep into absurdism, not quite the same as a lazy concatenation, but still annoyed me at the time.
In fairness, "roboplegic wrongcock" was from the pedogeddon special which, although undoubtedly the show's most iconic episode, also featured some of its most strained wordplay. By contrast, I still heartily enjoy such gems as "fucknut and arsecandle" from the Animals episode.
How I hate it. I laughed at it once, in 1991 - when a flatmate wrote the words “slack-jawed spunk-gibbon” on a photo of Rod Stewart in MOJO magazine - but never since. “Cockwomble” = instant block in my book.
It's fairly tame in Latin, as far as I can see. Non-existent in French, I think and tame in German, although there's an opportunity with separable verbs to jazz them up a bit. Unfortunately my German isn't current enough to find any spicy examples.
Exactly. Momentarily funny the first time.
Mind you, I laughed the first time I heard someone described as a ‘snowflake’ so maybe I just have a poor sense of humour.
I never blocked anyone on Twitter. Here, I’m blocking with gay abandon. Tedious post? Block. Faux-feminist annoying columnist? Block. Disagree with their use of commas? Block.
I actually started that on Muskian Twitter, coffee and block the first 30-40 blue tick idiots on a given thread first thing in the morning. It was fun at first but then quickly tedious.
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That's how I feel every time I read one of those compound-swear posts
Whatever those shows did well, you were never 100% safe from things like "roboplegic wrongcock." Admittedly this is deep into absurdism, not quite the same as a lazy concatenation, but still annoyed me at the time.
Mind you, I laughed the first time I heard someone described as a ‘snowflake’ so maybe I just have a poor sense of humour.