• @FilthyShrooms
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    6 hours ago

    Notice he doesn’t mention dwarvish. They certainly have curse words for this

  • @[email protected]
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    713 hours ago

    Were they not allowed 1 swear word in each film to keep the same age rating in the US? Of course probably different for other languages, but I think this would be a good case to make use of it.

    • @[email protected]
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      7 hours ago

      If we’re talking Two Towers I want to save the f-bomb for when Aragorn tosses Gimli at Helms Deep. Gimli just roars “Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck!” as he flies through the air.

    • @mkwt
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      112 hours ago

      Traditionally, the PG-13 rating allows for one f-bomb. I don’t remember if these films were PG-13 or not.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 hours ago

        It was PG in the UK, think they raised it to 12 more recently. But the US rating was PG-13.

  • Sundray
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    813 hours ago

    Treachery so bad they had to resort to Scottish!

    • @TheGrandNagus
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      47 hours ago

      Scottish?

      Cunt is almost certainly Germanic in origin. Old Norse most likely.

      For the UK specifically, it likely comes from the Latin variant cunnus, meaning vulva. And Romans didn’t spend a great deal of time north of modern-day Newcastle, a fair bit south of the border.

      • Sundray
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        27 hours ago

        Thanks for the info :)

        I was just having a little joke about how often the Scots say it. (With apologies to my Australian homies, I didn’t forget about you.)