"Filthy"-- Re: GoF chapter 24-26 Post DH look

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 182076

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>

> Carol:
> I'm not British, either, but I love words and find British/American
> differences, etymology, and similar subjects fascinating.

> IMO, the British, whether Wizards, don't need "filthy" as a euphemism
> for the adjective form of the f-word. They have "frigging" and
> "effing" to serve that purpose already. 

Geoff:
I cannot recall hearing a British person use "frigging" - I've seen it far
more in fan fiction coming from US writers than anywhere else....

"effing" - yesss... but you don't hear it over much; you're more likely to 
hear the real thing nowadays if you hear anything.

But, as I said previously, the young people I've been associated with 
in recent years tend not to go down that road. Perhaps, as with me 
when I was in my mid-teens, that sort of language was kept away 
from adults and just to prove our status with our peers but the 
novelty wore off eventually.