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That bit in the Railway Children when Jenny Agutter says "Daddy! My Daddy!". Gets me every time. I am 48 years old.

(, Thu 7 Aug 2014, 14:51)
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Writing "cunt" when you mean "twat"
This callous eradication of the subtleties of the English tongue is heartbreaking.
(, Wed 13 Aug 2014, 17:28, 15 replies)
I'll eradicate some subtlety around your twat with my calloused English tongue.

(, Wed 13 Aug 2014, 17:32, closed)
Wow, foreplay...
but I'm bending my gender for no-one, thank you.
(, Wed 13 Aug 2014, 17:33, closed)

Twat is relatively modern but cunt is documented as far back as before the Norman invasion. It's authentically anglo-saxon and at the time wasnt especially crude - its a victim of post-Norman snobbishness about speaking 'English' - Chaucer includes it in some of his works and Shakespeare puns on it..
(, Wed 13 Aug 2014, 17:45, closed)
don't think anybody would bother asking for an etymology lesson from somebody with such a clumsy cod-latin username
the earliest use of cunt in its modern sense is from three hundred years after the Norman invasion

And that "post-Norman snobbishness" guff is clueless GCSE twaddle. The French/Anglo-Saxon patois predated the military invasion and the distinction between Anglo-Saxon and French/Norman inhabitants barely lasted twenty years.

So ... yeah ... you're an idiot.
(, Wed 13 Aug 2014, 17:55, closed)
That was like that bit out of "Good Will Hunting"
"How'd ya like them aaaaappples???!?!"
(, Thu 14 Aug 2014, 12:49, closed)
I'll be he does,
the saucy Elizabethan smut peddler.
(, Wed 13 Aug 2014, 17:55, closed)
he doesn't
he makes a pun on the word "quaint" in the Miller's Tale.
(, Wed 13 Aug 2014, 18:04, closed)
[Something about
...shaking one's spear at bit of miller's tail.]
(, Wed 13 Aug 2014, 18:22, closed)
But isn't the pun based on "quaint" sounding like "cunt"?

(, Thu 14 Aug 2014, 22:38, closed)

cunt has been used to describe the vulva since at least 1230, and corresponds to the Old Norse kunta, although its etymology is uncertain
(, Wed 13 Aug 2014, 18:18, closed)
what's a century between old friends

(, Wed 13 Aug 2014, 19:00, closed)
Twat is relatively modern, but cunt is forever.

(, Wed 13 Aug 2014, 22:22, closed)
that's deep, man

(, Wed 13 Aug 2014, 22:26, closed)
Well, I was thinking more in terms of insults
You know, when you call someone a cunt when really they're just a twat. I've always thought if it as a hierarchical thing. Makes me even more teary-eyed when I think of all the people I could have called a cunt but didn't. I'm just too nice.
(, Wed 13 Aug 2014, 22:11, closed)

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