If any of you fuckin idiots want to pursue this you can read this wankers thesis from a uni here in Gods fuckin' own
http://www.gusworld.com.au/nrc/thesis/intro.htm

ABSTRACT

This thesis presents and defends semantic explications for a number of swearwords commonly used in Australian English. Its focus is on different constructions which can be conveyed using the three lexical forms shit, fuck and hoho. Contrary to the popular belief that swearwords are "meaningless", it is shown that each of these swearwords can be used to convey a number of specific meanings. These meanings are sometimes related, but each needs to be defined independently if similarities and differences between terms are to be precisely captured. Aspects of meaning discussed include the contrast between the exclamations Shit! and Fuck!, the common adjectival form fucking, the relationship of the referential term hoho to other uses, the contrast between fucking and making love, and the meaning conveyed by semi-metaphorical forms such as to kick the shit out of someone. The method of semantic representation adopted is the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach advocated by Anna Wierzbicka and others. The explications presented here have a number of implications. Relevant issues examined include the relationship between referential uses of swearwords and the other meanings which they convey, the semantic importance of the consciousness of "phonetic form" in swearing, and the role of prototypes in the semantics of swearwords. The semantic characterisation of the concepts "swearing" and "swearword" is also discussed.

Heehee. FXH and all his huge cut and paste posts. Doesn't he realize my tiny hick brain can only read and process maybe 200 words per........................................  der  uh  der drool der

Australia's Kerry Packer (for a time Australia's richest man; died late 2005) was also very fond of the word "fuck". Perhaps his best remembered quote followed the first time he died in 1990, after suffering a heart attack and being clinically dead for some eight minutes before being revived. When asked if he saw a light at the end of a tunnel he said: "Son, there's fucking nothing there."

Mark Latham, another Australian politician had this to say about Prime Minister John Howard's trip to the U.S.A.: "Howard is an arse-licker. He went over there, kissed some bums, and got patted on the fucking head."

If some famous people had been Australians

General Custer    Where did all them fucking Indians come from?
Captain of the Titanic    "Where's all the fucking water coming from?"
Michelangelo    "You want me to paint what on the fucking ceiling?"
Einstein    "Any fucker could understand that."
Donald Campbell    "The fucking throttle is stuck."
Anne Boleyn    "Heads are going to fucking roll."
Richard Nixon    "Who's going to fucking know?"
Mark Thatcher    "What fucking map?"
Picasso    "It does fucking look like her."
Christopher Columbus    "Where the fuck are we?"
Michael Jackson    "It's a fucking skin condition"
Pythagoras    "How the fuck did you work that one out?"
Joan of Arc    "I don't suppose it will fucking rain."
Miss Marples    "I haven't got a fucking clue."
Noah    "Scattered showers, my fucking arse."
Ronald Regan to the Pope    "Yes it does fucking hurt."
Harold, Battle of Hastings 1066    "Watch him he'll have some fucker's eye out"
Leonardo da Vinci    "Call that a fucking smile?"
Sir Walter Raleigh    "That's another good cloak fucked!"
William Tell    "Keep Fucking Still."
Angela Merkel    "The greedy fuckers want how fucking much?"

Those are giving me quite the case of the fucking giggles FXH.  Mrs WM's getting inquisitive to what mischief we're up to.

My poor thread ,it had such promise and i actually found someone else who knew what Rhotic and non-rhotic meant?
You bunch of fuckers you can all fuck right off.

The London accent and not the nice acceptable middle class Estuary English, is more of a patois now 'innit? So many influences from across the commonwealth and beyond, then you have the all pervading gangsta' yoof culture that has successfully inprinted its speech patterns and minstrel show across the globe. When I hear kids from London being interviewed now, I just chuckle. But in saying that, I am amazed that Janet Street Porter ever got on television with that horrendous grating urban gutteral sound.

The Liverpool scouse accent is as rich as cockney rhyming slang, has only been around since the 1890s, but the changes in the last 30-40 years, has gone from the slow soft spoken accents of Macca and Lennon, to a hard urban sound that reflects the decline in the city.

As for swear words, they are mostly inaffectual now. Back in the 80s when we Brits were first being exposed to American movies on masse via our video recorders it was edgy and shocking enough for The Tube to be axed with the infamous "If you're a trendy motherfucker....." Now that power is diminished and gone, a shame really, because a good expletive used occasionally was quite effective, especially in the work place.

My favorite English accent to hear is the Geordie.

One feature of some English accents that is irritating is the replacement of a proper "th" sound as in "thing" with "f". I've no idea why this should produce any reaction, but it does. In general I like that there is so much diversity in pronunciation by native English speakers and I do not like the trend towards "standard" accents,  but that one fing bothers me.

One feature that I like and I wish we Americans would adopt is the distinguishing of "d" and "t" as in "latter" and "ladder". Most of us pronounce them the same. The only people I hear that do it like the English are the educated class of New England.

Historically,  the feature I most lament the loss of by nearly all English speakers globally is the non pronunciation of final "ed" as in past tense usage. I'd like to say "I talk ed to him", but I'm not doing this alone.

Before I went to the northeast for school and now work I used to have a pretty pronounced Appalachian twang. For the most part that has been covered up, but when I get angry it comes out more. This has the unintended consequence of making  listeners who know me laugh.

I find it amusing that so many under educated English make fun of us for our mostly rhotic country. There is an association with non-rhoticism and "proper English". Funny, because for the most part, as mentioned above, it was not Americans that changed this formerly standard speech way.

Last edited by Jeff Reed (2014-02-03 04:43:36)