The thing is, once a word has acquired negative connotations, it becomes an idiom and it really doesn’t matter what people think it means. It’s like when you have curse words, and then you have people who say “oh schnitzel” and “darn it”: what’s the difference? It’s just words! The thing is that when you say one over the other people know what you mean- either you’re deliberately being vulgar or you’re pretending to be vulgar. The fact that everyone knows what “darn it” really means doesn’t make a difference, cuz we all know you’re not cursing.
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