Swearing in Russia, and Ukraine, and everywhere else...
:o OK, I read this in the Kyiv Post : The “C” word: it’s a word that, even in the West, where everyday language (especially in the movies) is often laced with profanity, is just too much. Hearing that degrading term for the female anatomy doesn’t just make people flinch; it makes the people who hear it used think lower of those who use it.
In English, the “C” word is way over the line, in the same way that swearing of any kind is in Ukraine.
So it now has me asking, "Do the people in Russia, Ukraine, etc. swear openly in public. When I am at work, I often hear many swear words, all day long. Granted I work with men, but on TV I do hear swearing all the time, and I see the level of morality lowering all the time. What is this situation like there?? I'm interested to know... :?
Re: Swearing in Russia, and Ukraine, and everywhere else...
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Originally Posted by Haksaw
So it now has me asking, "Do the people in Russia, Ukraine, etc. swear openly in public. When I am at work, I often hear many swear words, all day long. Granted I work with men, but on TV I do hear swearing all the time, and I see the level of morality lowering all the time. What is this situation like there?? I'm interested to know... :?
When I was growing up it was considered a very bad tone to use swear words in front of a woman and you could hear very little swearing in public places. It was always going on between men however. What we have now is completely different. It is pretty much everywhere... As one of my friends put it (when I came to visit Russia after about 2 years of absense and was somewhat surprised to hear how some of the people I knew spoke), "мы матом больше не ругаемся, мы на нем разговариваем!"