Wildbill wrote:
I'm guessing you either picked it up hanging around vulgar English-speakers or watching our vulgar movies. But we're not really like that here. Most, if not all of us here on this board, are decent people who don't speak that way. Oh, we may drop a cuss word or two occasionally, but we don't spew it out every other breath like ill-bred adolescents. In fact, decent Americans/Canadians, etc., call those who speak that way all the time "gutter trash" or some such. In other words, it's not everyday language for mainstream English speakers who have reached maturity, and no one I know of here will appreciate hearing it spoken profusely on this board.
Was there a reason to write all that, really? I seriously don't understand why you think that I used any sentences to attack someone. I assure you, I did not. At all.
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Also, I must say that your command of a certain English vernacular is "outstanding", but I don't imagine you learned that particular profanity in a Russian school's English class.
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We usually don't make references to someone with whom we disagree being high on drugs unless we are quite chummy with that particular individual over a long period of time - saying it as a joke - and even then, normally we don't carry on that way in public.
Really? Well excuse me then, maybe it's because I just converted my usual (Russian) style of speaking to the English-based board which mainly consists of American/United Kingdom citizens, who aren't really used to this kind of addressing?
Believe me, in Russia, when you say to someone that you think that they are "on high" or drunk (or smoking illegal drugs made from famously known kinds of illegal, but natural bio-floral resources) because of them say something or talk about something that sounds really strange or goofy, it's not so insulting or bad as you may thought that I think it's for America or other English-speaking countries (like UK or etc.) citizens, yes, it was practically a question with a joke meaning, purely no harm were intended - didn't think you'd get that hyped over it, lol.
It's not like every 1.5 (first with a half) citizen of Russia smokes natural-grown narcotics, but it's just a common phrase (for example: if someone says to me "There is Ryu, there is Ken...so when do they plan to introduce Sho to Street Fighter series? You know...there is Ryu and Ken, but there's no Sho...and it should be ShoRyuKen, right?", I'll answer "damn man, go wash in a cold shower and get sober" or "what the hell, man? that was some heavy stuff you were smoking there! come on, stop smoking this @#$%, it can only bring you more trouble!", like that) that's used by very many people in here for as long as I remember.
Well anyway...I'll stop using sentences or puns like that, because I see clearly that most people either got offended by them (even though they're absolutely harmless from the standard Russian's point of view), or just didn't understood the full meaning or intention of why I posted them. Well, that's that, I'll stop.
My friend, I know you did not use heavy profanity (when you did) to attack someone. My point was that just about all of us found that type of language quite distracting to the subject matter, not to mention, unpleasant, to boot. When you gravitate to the highest level of your exuberance or excitement level, if you will express yourself eloquently in refined language, suitably articulated for congenial company, you will also enjoy a much higher probability of swaying people to your point of view.
Hey, c'mon, Master Chan, does everyone in Russia really speak in those coarse terms? Well, I know that Russians just happen to be among the most artistic people in the world, musical composers with the fire of Tchaikovsky, writers with the passion of Tolstoy, evocative ballet dancers on the level of Baryshnikov... Amigo, just for your information, these are the types of Russians and Russian characters that educated people in the West treasure the most.
So, on with the fun. Thanks for respecting our tone.