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Why do people pose banal questions to /lit/?

Don't settle for an answer, but discuss

Those are some very good questions, OP.

>>3253763
>Why do people call for God when they are having sex?
They do this when witnessing a car accident as well. Heavy emotions incite people to use strong/powerful language.
>Why do they say sexual things when they want to insult?
Trying to hit them where it hurts. Prude cultures tend to use vulgarity to insult. Pious cultures tend to blaspheme. Cultures that place an emphasis on family will insult ones family members. And the Dutch wish illnesses on one another.
>Why do they insult when they hit a table leg with their pinky toe?
They don't insult, they curse.
>Why do they use the diminutive so often when they are in love?
I would say such tenderness is somehow related to things small, innocent and cute.
>Why do they say happy things to babies and dogs in the same way?
They overly use intonation to make up for lack of comprehensive verbal communication.
>Why do they scratch the chin to think and the forehead to think really hard?
Citation needed. People just generally fondle something absently when in thought, I find.
>Why do they call something "serious" to assert its relevance?
Because lack of seriousness in treating the subject/case will fuck things up. It is a warning.
>Why do they say "bullshit" to that which they think it is phony?
Don't know.
>Why do they associate comprehension with the verb "to get"?
I assume it is to have in ones power, to master something. It implies possession.
>Why do children have the most unusual questions that embarass adults?
They are naturally curious, haven't evolved standard patterns of though as much as adults and aren't held back by social guidelines. The adults are embarrassed because they have incorporated those social guidelines.
>Why do elders have the most unusual answers that embarass the young?
Never encountered this.

Actually, various researches have discovered that shouting and cursing while in pain alleviates the pain to an extent. It has to do with the release of adrenaline upon shouting those words and/or hearing them.

So yeah, it helps saying "FUCK" after you've been shot in the kneecap.

>>3253818
That's kind of obvious even without research.

Shouldn't that have killed the guy?

>Because lack of seriousness in treating the subject/case will fuck things up. It is a warning.

But think about what seriousness implies. Can't something that is light and humoured not be just as sincere, true, relevant, important as something serious? Aren't we so used to the word "serious" that we treat it as a requirement for something to be taken in high consideration. It's even hard to talk about it without bringing the word "serious" to it.

>>3253891
r u fag made of glass or sumthin?

>>3253898
lol fag made of glass. probably smells like lavender.

>>3253763
OP i think you have the wrong picture there, i will help you out.

>>3253805
>They don't insult, they curse.
>curse
its cuss ftfy

>>3253763
In Italian, the word for orgasm is translated to "little death". So in that instance, for that small time, I've killed that girl and then brought her back to life. I'm God, and she wants more.

>>3254019
This is great. I think I saw this being said somewhere, a movie or lecture perhaps...

What is the term exactly?

isn't this just the back blurb from Pinker's The Stuff of Thouhgt?

>>3254002
>Eagles

>>3254147
it's a lie. in italian orgasm is orgasmo. he's probably an amerifat referring to the french petite mort, which is an idiom, not the actual word for orgasm (orgasme).

ur all fgts

>>3254173
So....what's the past tense of orgasmo in Italian?

>>3254200

Orgasmo'd

Io parlo italianooo stupitoo americano stupitooo pasta cucina insalatta tortellini pesto albaca alpaca alfredo stupitooo

speech acts, etc.

>>3254200
it's not a verb

>>3254173
Oh yeah, I heard it from Slavoj! I knew it, I just couldn't connect to anything because the guy got the language wrong.

>>3254200

First, it's not orgasmo, the verb is Godere.

In the imperfect, it's io godevo, I think. It's a long time since I used my Italian. Because it's a disgusting language

>>3254258

I should also clarify - orgasmo is correct, but very formal. The only context I've heard it in is fingere l'orgasmo (fake orgasm). I think most of the time they use Vengo (I'm coming), same as everyone else in Europe. Except the French who say Je suis là because they're arrogant bastards and they won't give you any warning before they nut on your belly.

>>3254266
...y-y... you're a female? on /lit/

captcha related: eunuchs kemenus

>>3254270
No, I'm an homosexual.

>>3254293

Stop talking for my, you patriarchal oppressor. I'm >>3254266 and I am a female. And I've travelled a lot.

>>3253763
Why do they say sexual things when they want to insult?

they dont necessarily. most insulta in german have nothing to do with sex, but are fecal in nature

>>3254314
You could come here anytime you want. I have a big library.

>>3254329

In holland, it's all about disease. They call you a cancer or tell you to go catch typhus.

the dutch are fucking weird though. They have ant-fuckers.

>>3254330

It's OK, I bet I've read it all already.