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The English Language
Time-Machine:
Well, it not really someone who's annoying, necessarily. It's just kind of a throw-away insult, and not a very powerful one at that. Like booger or dumb-face. Almost a grade-school thing.
Have you ever read Ender's Game? I always wonder what the British would think of that book, considering the aliens are called "buggers" because they look like big insects. I wonder if they changed the word for the UK edition, because it's kind of a children's book.
monkey:
I found the actual definition for Bugger:
Technically means to sodomize, but most people use the word in a variety of situations, often without realizing the true meaning.
Time-Machine:
Yeah. I think in America most people think of bugs, like insects. And that's really the only meaning we put behind it. Sodomy is definitly not part of the way we use it ever. If you tried to use it to reference sodomy peope would just be like "Are you an idiot?"
Kind of like the actual definitions or words like "dork" and "geek." Those were lost to any modern referencing ages ago (in fact, many dictionaries stop bothering printing the original definition of dork...which made me kind sad. It was always fun to look up for a cheap immature laugh). Trying to use them with their actual definition just wouldn't work. No one would know what you were talking about. (well....maybe with geek. I'm not sure, there).
suu_no_clover:
What about the term "dude"? I've been told it's fairly common in the western part of the US, where I am, but it's not used much elsewhere.
Jeannette:
Erg, 'dude' is kind of a strange term. I use it myself fairly often because I like it, but most other people I know don't use it. I live in the southern US, just for reference. It's kinda considered a dated term, and not used often; it was a lot more common five, ten years ago.
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