Posted by Kim Davies/the Murrelets on November 11, 1998 at 22:20:05:
In Reply to: Manners posted by Robert Dilley on October 08, 1998 at 20:14:39:
I think there is a rather substantial culture difference between the English "shut up" and the North American version, which is actually "shuddup". In England, people still seem to pronounce all the consonants, and this phrase seems to often come out as the pointed, but rather formal, "DO shut up!"...AR doesn't use that exact phrase, but it seems to be implied. My feeling is that it has a less slangy nastiness to it in UK English than it does here in Canada, where it is more rude, badly pronounced and thoroughly more unpleasant. So in AR's UK context it is not nearly as "rude" as it is in the North American one, IMHO.