Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 27 days agoHow come in America Cunt is such a egregious word but not the same in Europe?message-squaremessage-square46linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareHow come in America Cunt is such a egregious word but not the same in Europe?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 27 days agomessage-square46linkfedilink
minus-squareFuckswearwords@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·27 days agoThe second person singular of “kunnen” (to be able to) is kunt in Dutch. And that’s how after an eon of speaking and reading English, I first noticed “can” doesn’t have an infinitive form in English.
minus-squareIusedtobeanalien@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·27 days agoThe Dutch I know use the word kut liberally
minus-squarebluesheep@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·26 days agoCause for swears we don’t stop at body parts
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·25 days agowe can create it, i propose “to cun”, because that will be funny.
The second person singular of “kunnen” (to be able to) is kunt in Dutch. And that’s how after an eon of speaking and reading English, I first noticed “can” doesn’t have an infinitive form in English.
The Dutch I know use the word kut liberally
Cause for swears we don’t stop at body parts
we can create it, i propose “to cun”, because that will be funny.