Buggery Fuck

[andrewducker]

The way that people are affected by language is a source of constant amusement to me.

The Register has an article on the new me.uk domain names. Part of it reads:

Bugger.me.uk, love.me.uk, and kiss.me.uk have all been snapped up.

There are others too - as you can well imagine - but a sense of decency prevents us from printing them here.

Now, I can only assume that they mean "fuck.me.uk". Which leads me to wonder why "fuck" is considered more obscene than "bugger". One of them means to have sex in the 'ordinary' way, the other means to have sex anally. Now, should the acts be described, photgraphed, filmed or performed in a live setting then buggery is far more likely to elicit protest than simple fucking is.

So why is it that the word is so much less offensive?

Answers on a postcard to the usual address.

Comments

[derumi.livejournal.com]

Language gets even funnier when you get into dialects and such. Like 'bugger' would hardly register to many Americans who use it to describe 'whatzits'. And asking for a cigarette or stating that you like to eat certain meat products in smalltown USA with British terminology will more than likely get you horrified looks. O_o

The one word used here on the American media a lot that I wonder about is the word 'frigging'. I don't understand why 'jerk-off' or 'fuck yourself' wouldn't be allowed on the radio, while people are able to idly fling about a crude word describing womanly masturbation.