Pardon My F*?#$! French

[Super Nova]

Do we swear enough here in PA. Are we Australian enough with our language. Some here clearly are.

Check out the link below for full story.

You would remain sacked in the UK and the US for telling your boss to get f..ked.

I loved telling my boss he was a f,,k'n indiot and to get f,,ked and that was in the tech industry when in Australia. I have to be so much more careful over here in pommy land.

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His manager told him to return to the meeting. What happened next is subject to debate, but one thing is certain: Craig Symes told his boss to ''get f---ed''.

There was some further heated discussion, but the end result was that Symes was dismissed. But as Fair Work Australia has ruled, telling his boss to ''get f---ed'' was not grounds for dismissal. Linfox Armguard was ordered to give Symes his job back.

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Swearing has always been part of the Australian character. Think ''bloody'', the great Australian adjective. In a paper on swearing, Monash University's Kate Burridge and Keith Allan noted Australians have always regarded their colloquial idiom as being a significant part of their cultural identity.

''The standard language is more global in nature and many Australian English speakers see their colloquialisms, nicknames, diminutives, swearing, and insults to be important indicators of their Australianness and expressions of cherished ideals such as friendliness, nonchalance, mateship, egalitarianism, and anti-authoritarianism,'' they wrote.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/national/pardo ... z21Y6RPHjH

[AiA in Atlanta]

I work with Brits and they use "fuck" all the time whereas Americans generally don't in business settings. Was speaking to an American the other week on the phone regarding business and he said "fuck fuck fuck" and I thought less of him for it but if the Brits had same the same thing I wouldn't have thought anything of it at all.

[boxy]

Even Aussies need to know which bosses they can tell to feck off, and it depends on the context. I work for with quite a few different employers throughout the year, they're all different, but most will let you get away with it the first time, and let you know, subtly, if it's inappropriate, before sacking you :p