No… Not at all. “gae” Vs “gahgged”. Gay has a hard A, gagged had a soft A. Plus gagged had a ‘gg’ sound in the middle, and also a D sound at the end. Actually, the only thing they have in common is starting with a G.
Do they sound the same to you?
IIRC putaine (used by the connector above), salope, merde. Basically calling things sluts and whores and saying shit.
I’ve taken this approach with my kids, and although none are teenagers, I’ve still never got any kickback. For a while now they will even self report and call me if rubbish comes on. Actually, at this point they’d just change it to something quality themselves. I wonder if the reasons I don’t like certain videos has sunk in for them, and they’re just not interested in weird stuff now? A couple of them push with computer games though. I’m clear and consistent in allowing no first person shooters yet, but they try to get away with it if they think I’m not paying attention.
… You might be right. He has a weird accent, and if he pronounced the ‘a’ like an American and swallowed the ‘gg’ …
Or maybe that’s the secret do defeating the Conservatives? “We can totally make an LNG pipeline to the coast, but … err … that would make you all pretty gay.”
The French would not say that. They swear, but the religious swears are the domain of the Quebecois. Anyway, surprised the waiter even said, “non.” I’m my experience more likely to say they didn’t understand you and then ignore you.
I’ve been wondering a lot about absurdism in humour. There are people who laugh when they see something disastrous happen, like a man reflexively trying to stop a cement truck from tipping and getting squashed dead. Or a recent news story of the only fatality in a school bus crash: it was an observer who got hit by a vehicle as he ran across the highway to see if the kids were ok. A lot of the time this laughing response to a disaster is interpreted as schadenfreude, but a good portion of the time I believe it’s absurdism.
We try so hard to have agency, to do something, but the World doesn’t give a fuck. You have two choices when shit goes so wrong: you can wail about the unfairness of it all, or you can laugh at the absurdity of our efforts in the face of the colossal chaos of it all. The laughter is stronger.
It’s interesting to me that some cultures seem to have absurd humour baked in. The Aussies and Kiwis seem to have it. They just make jokes about and laugh at the most horrific situations.
A power outage
Turns my shiny computer
Into a dead rock.
EDIT: Lemmy edited out my paragraph breaks.
Isn’t that salsa? That’s literally vinegar pickled bruscheta. Well, I guess it’s got jalapeno.
Or you talking like a spread made from pickled cucumbers? That sounds a lot like relish.