Wednesday, February 15, 2006

linguistic question

mrs. noz and i have an ongoing disagreement about the vulgarity of the word "piss." she apparently thinks it's a bad word, along the lines of "shit" whereas i think it's more like "crap."

"wrong, the equivalent to 'crap' is 'pee'" she told me when the topic came up this evening.

i disagreed, "'pee' is more on the level of 'poopy'"

"no, that's like 'pee-pee'" she pointed out

"okay, then 'piss' is like 'poop.'" summing up, i added; "'poopy' is like 'pee-pee', 'pee' is like 'poop', 'piss' is like 'crap'"

"then what's 'shit'?" she asked

"there is no equivalent to 'shit.'" i said.

"you're full of crap"

who's right?