"bloody"
Vanessa
vheggie at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 26 09:36:08 UTC 2001
The 'strength' or otherwise of 'bloody' really only depends on your
perspective.
One of the things I really like about Ron is his occassional 'strong'
language (especially where JKR refuses to tell us what word he's used
and just says that Hermione objects to it...)
Bloody alone is probably no stronger than 'git', which Ron also uses
a lot. So-called 'religious' swear words are generally considered
less 'strong' than sexual or faecal swear words; I'd've got away with
bloody, or hell, or Oh my God! at school, but not shit or f***.
Saying "that was bloody brilliant" to a teacher would probably get
you a sharp look, and require an "Oops, sorry", but it wouldn't merit
a punishment.
Bloody occassionaly gets turned into 'ruddy', which I believe Hagrid
says quite a bit.
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