Country Matters - TV Tropes
- ️Thu Jul 30 2009
"Country Matters" is no longer considered a trope. You might be looking for one of the following:
Tropes:
- Accidental Innuendo, a "YMMV trope" where the audience thinks something sounds dirty when it wasn't intended to by the creators.
- Atomic F-Bomb, a sudden, very loud profane exclamation for emphasis.
- Catchphrase Insult: For characters who use an insult as their catchphrase.
- Double Entendre, where a character says something that deliberately sounds dirty but isn't on the facial definitions of the words.
- Gendered Insult, treating specifically gendered language or attributes as derogatory words.
- Innocent Innuendo, where a character says something that sounds dirty but wasn't meant to by the character.
- N-Word Privileges, for uses of the word "cunt" by women to reclaim it.
- Precision F-Strike, a sudden use of profanity by a character who rarely swears, for emphasis.
- Separated by a Common Language, where misunderstandings between characters over cultural differences regarding swearing.
- Seven Dirty Words, the list formulated by George Carlin of words you're not allowed to say on TV, "cunt" among them.
- T-Word Euphemism, when the term "c-word" is used to refer to the word without saying it.
- These Tropes Should Watch Their Language, an index of tropes about profanity in general.
Works:
- Hamlet, a political Psychological Thriller play by William Shakespeare where the line "country matters" originated.
Other:
- UsefulNotes.Separated By A Common Language, a Useful Notes page on regional differences in profanity. The word "cunt" has its own section on SeparatedByACommonLanguage.English.
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