So her character has only been in the US a few months, but the producers felt it wise for her to text Dave saying "OK a$$hole let's meet", though her upbringing would have had her text "OK ar$ehole let's meet".
WTF do yanks always have to frig around with things they don't understand?
PS Love how frig got through the IMDB vulgarity checker unchallenged.
1) It is very likely that auto-correct would have altered it to *beep*
2) She had been in a relationship with an American for 5 years...not actually unthinkable that she could have assimilated some slang from him.
3) I'm South African and obviously there is a strong British culture that we grow up with too. We certainly do not use *beep* exclusively.
Thanks for the input. You have probably just stated the rationalisations that those idiot writers might have pondered but:
1) If you start with A-R-S, no spell checker is going to suggest A-S-S.
2) I doubt she would so easily have let go of the correct pronunciation of such a common vulgarity and given they had been living in Britain it is more likely that he would be using ar$ehole as well.
3) I don't know what "beep" you are referring to. You should have used $ signs to get past the IMDB checker. If it is ar$ehole you don't use exclusively, I am sorry you are so easily indoctrinated.
I hate the use of a$$ to indicate the buttocks in any instance. Asses are donkeys. Why the stupid effing yanks felt the need to change the spelling & pronunciation is beyond me. The word is derived from Old English ærs, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch aars and German arsch. All of them use the "r" and all of them sound pretty much the same.
A Brit talking about indoctrination has to be the most hysterical, hypocritical, self-entitled thing I have heard in a long while!
Regardless, I think your OP is extremely pedantic and petty and does nothing to detract from the story line. A$$hole is widely used English speakers the world over.
Moreover, this change in spelling is far more likely to have derived from the phonetic use of the term. Posh people and I think many people from the South of England, from my limited experience, would not necessarily pronounce/emphasise the "r" in ar$ehole.
Oh, and by the way, Dutch/Germanic Rs do not sound like English Rs...
I'm not a Brit and certainly not female, so unlikely to be hysterical, hypocritical or self-entitled.
I'm pretty sure all "r"s sound the same notwithstanding the volume of methane delivered by the different diets of the owners.
Posh people are usually too well educated to resort to slang but if they were English, they would never say a$$hole. It is vulgar and worse still, from their point of view, colonial.
You can think what you want. It doesn't make it true. What is your evidence for your blanket statement regarding the wide usage of that word? In my country, asses are kept in corrals or barns, not holes.
I must tell you people "thinking" they can make baseless and inaccurate statements about things they have "limited experience" in, always convinces me of the validity of their argument. Uh no, not really.
This idiot just got himself blocked.
shareArgue as much as you like, english is still a language of barbarians. From you brutes who destroyed the only real civilization this world has seen.
shareIt sounds more like an insult, arse sounds more cute than anything else. I've never heard of fick other than trying not to say the US f word.
shareWho the hell cares? That's one of the dumbest things I've seen someone complain about. "Hey have you seen Begin Again?" "Yeah, terrible movie. It has a British girl texting the word a$$hole instead of *beep* No sense of realism whatsoever." -You, probably.
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