OT:Heard on American Dad: daughter Hayley singing a song about...

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I assume that "ver" is a 'destructive' prefix which is absent in the parallel (but not identical) English version. No?
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From: Leslie Decker <leslie at FAMILYDECKER.ORG>
Date:         Sat, 3 Apr 2010 07:26:00
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Subject:      Re: [ADS-L] OT:Heard on American Dad: daughter Hayley singing a
              song
              about...

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> "... tapping that ass."
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> When I was in Amsterdam, sometimes, Dutch people would complain about
> the casual use of "God verdoeme!" by Americans. Now, I see their
> point.
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> Well, one of the problems there, of course, is that 'godverdomme' is much
stronger than (for most English-speakers ) 'God dammit.' Most Dutch people
have told me it was closer too 'motherfucker' for shock value.

it made for an interesting situation when an English friend of mine was
having a holiday dinner with her Dutch boyfriend and his entire family,  She
thought it was something like 'dammit' and scandalized his grandparents by
using it when she dropped her napkin!

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