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I would be delighted to participate, and delightfully surprised if you can offend me.
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I agree, Alex.
I did the survey, and after my answers I left her with these additional thoughts: I think this may be presumptious
"Better a pound of sugar than twenty pounds of shit". I put "1 - mild" for this one, even though it is a word that only describes something specific and would not be considered offensive at all to me in this context. I think you should have a choice of answers that is " "0.5 indifferent", and many of my "1-mild" and many of my "0 cannot specify" answers would then be "0.5 indifferent". "Goddamn" is a word that I just don't hear much, at all. I know it is offensive to some which is why I call it "mild" but it has no specific meaning to me, and after a while just becomes gratuitous... almost a chant-like part of the language. Most slang is like that for me. Just another part of the language. Thanks for an interesting read."
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My comments were to the effect that "goddamn" and its variants seemed over-represented, while the really offensive words in my opinion (c*nt, f*ck, and n#gger come to mind) were not addressed.
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is that "box" in the - um - mildly obscene sense? No, no; just picturing mailing a person...
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Hello, miia, and welcome!  I hope you stick around for awhile! I submitted my questionnaire from my US English/Mid-Atlantic Region (New Jersey) perspective. What a fascinating study! Hope I could be of some help. The only comment I had was that I thought that goddamn would more accurately translate as goddammit in the context it appeared (probably overly so, though).
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No doubt my education has been sadly lacking in some respects, or maybe I just don't watch enough N. American TV, but what is the midly obscene meaning of box?
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Done Miia. I sent off the questionaire a minute ago. Good luck with your thesis.
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Aloha. Miia, glad to have you aBoard!
I'm off to do the poll.
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Dear all, I have now gone through the comments you submitted with the questionnaire. They can be read in: http://cc.joensuu.fi/~mmattila/comments.htm
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