no f#@!*ing way! (warning: this entry rated R)

I don’t know how he does it, but Bill drives his car without the radio on. I can’t stand the silence, although French radio sometimes is not a great deal better. Still, it’s supposed to be good practice to try to understand it.

This morning on my way to French class, I was dialing around and stopped on the station that has studio guests every morning at 9. Normally, I would not have chosen to listen. But this morning’s guests were British… so the DJ would ask his question in French, then English, and he would translate the guests’ answers.

There was one word he did not need to translate. It’s one that the French have apparently adopted with gusto.

This is what I heard:

You can say fuck on French radio. Go ahead. Say it! Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.

And they continued to use the word for the duration of the interview.

Turns out, the French think that this is a perfectly acceptable word in our culture… thanks to the American movies.

Even for me it seemed a little much. Although, it did take me back to my days in the newsroom…

2 Responses to “no f#@!*ing way! (warning: this entry rated R)”

  1. Todd Hollst says:

    I can attest that the word “fuck” is still used regularly in the newsroom. Though, not at much since Sallie Taylor retired.

  2. KECIA says:

    Funny, from what little I remember from my pathetic YEARS of Japanese language classes, I do not recall a single curse-term! All I recall is a Hawaiian slang one: “Bakatari” or loosely, “bastard.” And I STILL cannot properly order off a sushi menu!

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