Appropriateness of posts

[Nick Sabalausky]

On 3/18/2014 9:05 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On 3/18/2014 2:59 AM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad"
> <ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
>>
>> I was once told in game chat by a US player that I could not use the
>> term "shit" because it was such an offensive word. I was surprised. In
>> scandinavia the word is so mild it basically means "ouch", it can even
>> have positive connotations "skitbra" == "shit good" (really good).
>>
>
> That mildness of "shit" is true of probably around half of americans,
> too. Especially among the "Gen X" generation and younger (and of course
> there's varying regional tendencies, too). For a LOT of us it's just
> seen as a more normal and less Disney-ish way to say "ouch", "oops" or
> "stuff". But then, the US was also home to Puritanism way back when, so
> there's still a lot of those intolerance-disguised-as-ethics attitudes too.
>

Oh, yea, and "shit" can have positive connotations here in the US, too, 
particularly in informal speech: "Oh, MAN that burger was some good shit!"

It's very much a wildcard word, really. Like "smurf" ;)