#ANOTHER WORD FOR YOU SUCK FREE#

Then again, maybe I'm just showing my age here.ДЄs a footnote, you might want to check out our sister site, English Language Learners.

#ANOTHER WORD FOR YOU SUCK FREE#

Feel free to use it on message boards and the like when you want to express a negative opinion, but realize you'll risk sounding a bit uncouth to some when you do.

I think you and your friend are unlikely to come up with an agreed-upon viewpoint, because you're both right in a way. IвЂ™m not sure which explanation disturbs me more. Today, the sexual overtones are either forgotten or are now acceptable in mixed company. I have always assumed-rightly or wrongly, I do not know - that the word was originally intended to carry sexual overtones, which was the reason for its suppression. The elders werenвЂ™t having any of it, last I checked, but the liberalizing linguists seem to have carried the day. I remember some agitation by certain culturally-advanced youngsters who tried to railroad their elders into accepting sucks as a safe and harmless substitute for stinks. It was used plenty in the school hallways but not in front of your teacher and never in front of your mother. Some may not believe this, but suck - as in вЂњMan, this class sucksвЂќ - was also in the raw obscenity category when I was a teenager. I thought this excerpt from a blog post, though, was worth pasting into an answer here: Feel free to do the same if you want diverse opinions on the matter. I typed is suck vulgar? on Google, and found mixed responses. How it's regarded or received might be generational. Yes, you can use the word in the way that you have described, but it's considered more harsh than polite, and it has somewhat vulgar overtones.

Another word for you suck