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Jay, I was raised where respect for your elders was mandatory, also, but my breaking free consisted of running off and getting married too young, instead of the language issue. In retrospect, I think I would have been better off to have chosen your option! For real.
Zorro, my son is in law enforcement, and I was raised around army brats, so I know that's the truth! Don't get me wrong, I can let out a bleep-worthy string when need be. I was just curious about the everyday use. Seems like expletives would lose their effectiveness with over-use.
That reminds me of one time in Florida. My sister was driving, and a teenage girl ran a stop sign and almost broadsided us. The passenger, another teenager, yelled, "You need to learn to fuckin' drive!" I yelled back, "Good trick if she could do it!" I don't think they got it.
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quote:Originally posted by Signora Del Drago: Thanks, Mad Jay and Zorro.
Jay, I was raised where respect for your elders was mandatory, also, but my breaking free consisted of running off and getting married too young, instead of the language issue. In retrospect, I think I would have been better off to have chosen your option! For real.
Cussing didn't stop some of us making an ass out of ourselves when we were young, though. I guess wisdom does come with age, regardless of where you go.
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Zorro, my son is in law enforcement, and I was raised around army brats, so I know that's the truth! Don't get me wrong, I can let out a bleep-worthy string when need be. I was just curious about the everyday use. Seems like expletives would lose their effectiveness with over-use.
Yes, you are absolutely right. Overuse of expletives does make them lose it's effectiveness. That's why many of us reserve some expletives for when we really need them. For example, from my list, behenchod and chutia were reserved for everyday used. But, when we used maderchod, bhosadike and gandu, we really meant it. Also, tone and context matter a lot. So, for example (I might be showing how bad my US slang is here) "Give me back my fuckin money, bro" would carry less weight that "Fuck you, asshole!!"
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Malruhn, I bow to you for your use of the language. Should I see you in a bar and should I happen to be wearing a western style hat (cowboy hat for a better description and I wear them a lot for the intended use of head protection) I will anounce in a very loud voice that I am from Texas and I will then point at you and further add: "And he can whip any body in the room." Well no, I won't do that, but I will buy you a beer. Richard
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...malodorous offspring of a syphilitic camel's gang rape by hyenas,you offend the sand you stand upon and sour the milk in the herds of those you go near simply by the pustulent stench of you disease ridden morals..
i had a spanish teacher whose first masters was in arabic.
she said they were the best...
or a shorter one..."son of 20 fathers" implies you were the result of a gangrape...
personally, being from texas, i like, "Damn, that ten gallon hat WILL hold ten gallons of shit! Who knew?" but i am not a cowboy ...*grin*...just argue with 'em a bit.
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WAIT!!! Before everyone goes and calls me "Shakes-fucking-spear", that was cut, and pasted from a poster on THIS board just after I joined!! I still don't recall who did it, but I seem to remember that it was a construct of several minds over several weeks.
Oh, but I just WISH I could pull stuff like that out of my fourth point of contact!!
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Well, I will still buy you a beer for the collection. Need to copy and save for future use.
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SO has recently displayed a fondness for the word "turdbucket."
I continue to use "ass-monkey" and "Muck-sucking duckfucker."
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Ok I must correct myself...I'm still learning spanish LOL
"chinga tu madre" is a way of saying fuck your mother yet it is MEXICAN slang, not general spanish, it like pussy to your mother...
There is no real way to say "fuck you"
In Ecuador a close way is "chucha tu madre" NOT CHOCHA which is also pussy but it is something like her stank pussy or dirty pussy...
I know I'm a silly gringa
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Unfortunately the word "fuck" has become so solidly entrenched in my vocabulary that it takes an effort of extreme concentration to keep it out of "polite" conversation. My mother has to tell me "don't use that word in front of me" about 20 times in any conversation. Fortunately I very, very seldom speak with her since she's on the other side of the world and a christian fundamentalist. Also fortunately I tend to hang out with people who are generally even worse than me. "Hey sheepshagger" is a common public greeting amongst my friends Anyway, now that you're all convinced that I really am the type of dirty biker scum your parents warned you about, here are some in Bulgarian:
Mayka ti duha na mechki v gorata: Your mother sucks bears in the woods. Pederas grozen gyrbav prokazen: Unsightly hunchbacked leper homosexual. Kon da ti go natrese: Go get fucked by a horse. Nosa ti e kato ruska putka: Your nose is like a Russian pussy. Gladna Karpatska Valchitza si Dalag Kosam Minet Da Ti Prai, shibania: Let a hungry Karpatian long-haired She-wolf blow your dick, you fuck. Tolko si debel che edinstvenite ti snimki sa satelitni: You are so fat that all you're pictures are from satellite. Premetni si tsitsite prez grub e propatuvai religiosnoto puteshestvie do toaletnata i kogato se otpusnesh ela pak da si pogovorime: Throw your sagging tits over your shoulder and travel the sacred pilgrimage to the crapper; after you feel relieved come back and then we can talk again. Kaji na tupata ti mamka da ti kupi prahosmukachka sa da mojesh da si isduljish nepokutnata pishka tu da mojesh da si go zavresh v dupenceto i da se chustvash chovek: Tell your stupid mother to buy you a vacuum cleaner so you can extend your inadequate little dick and cram it up your ass to feel a thrill for a change.
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Well, there's always pinche (accent on the "e") and pendejo. Sort of like damn-dumbass-jackass type name calling. Also cabron/-a meaning "bastard" and "bitch", respectively.
Don't know much spanish, but I do know the cuss words!
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Well, "Fresse" is not only slang - it's extremely rude. Never, ever use it trying to be familiar with a German...
This reminds me of a joke we were told by my German teacher :
An foreign exchange-student was spending a few months in a wealthy german family. One day, as he was visiting the city with the family's son, he crossed a street without paying attention and was almost hit by a car. His friend told him :
"Jetzt hast du aber Schwein gehabt !" (litterally translated : Now you really had the pig !)
The student asked what it meant, and the German explained it's a German expression for "You've really been lucky"
A few days later, there was a ball at the family's mansion. Everybody was enjoying the party, when the father asked the student :
"Sagen Sie, junger Mann, haben Sie schon mit meiner Tochter getanzt ?" (Tell me, young man, have you already danced with my daughter ?), whereupon the poor student answered, meaning to say "No, I haven't been so lucky yet" :
"Nein, das Schwein hab' ich noch nicht gehabt." (No, I didn't have the pig yet.)
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For Whom the Bell Tolls is a good source of Spanish expletives. My favorite is "!Me cago en tu leche!" which, literally translated, means "I shit in your milk!" There are a lot of variations on it, too - e.g. "I shit in the milk of your cowardice".
I have no idea if this is still in use, what the connotations are, or just how insulting it is.
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I usually call my brother a shit fucker, or an asswipe(not very offensive, but I'm not very creative). I usually just blurt out fuck or shit whilst driving, but that's only when something bad happens. But cursewords usually mean more when they are used selectively, b/c it's not expected.
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Oh, and also, in French a salaud is a male bitch, and salope is a female bitch.
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I always had good results with the term "fuck stick". Some people have to stop and think about that one. But if I'm around folks that I don't want to offend, and would hit my hand with a hammer, or what have you "Jesus, Joseph, and Mary" seems to get a few laughs.
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...I thought Sweden was the land of such great lines as:
"Varför måste vi bo i fucking jävla-kuk Åmål?"
(Translation: "Why must we live in fucking bloody-cock Åmål?" A certain movie's subtitling gives this as "fucking shit and piss", while a local variant opts to leave out the "jävla-kuk")
Anyway, here's one in Esperanto:
Bonvolu alsendi la pordiston—lausajne estas rano en mia bideo
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As far as other languages go, my insults are extremely limited. As in I've just got 2.
"Sheisskopf!"-Shithead "Dumpkopf!"-dumbhead
(Apologies for the bad spelling, German was more than 4 years ago).
But yes. I'm also fond of older insults like "Butthead", "Dirtbag", "scumbag", etc.
A side-note from the military...when I was in basic training, the Drill Sergeants swore plenty, but they often called the females "Cow" and the males "Dick".
They were acronyms, they told us. COW stood for "Combat Oriented Warrior" and DICK stood for "Dedicated Infantry Combat Killer".
Emmy P
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quote:Originally posted by Nappy Solo: But if I'm around folks that I don't want to offend, and would hit my hand with a hammer, or what have you "Jesus, Joseph, and Mary" seems to get a few laughs.
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Some classics from SouthPark the movie: Donkey raping shit-eater Testicle shitting rectal wart Uncle Fucker Horse Fucker Big floppy donkey dick How would you like to suck my balls? Fuck-Fuckety-Fuck-Fuck-Fuck
Some of my personal favorites are: Asshat Fuckhead Dumbshit Fuckin A
Ones I like using around my conservative in-laws: Jesus fuckin Joseph God fuckin damn
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Smeggin' hell Fuckin' hell Jesus Christ on a bike Fuck me in the ass with a lit cigar
Not too creative-but the first one is a quick way to make friends.
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I've become rather fond of "Christ on a cracker!"
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These are two originating with Newfoundlanders. (For those of you who don't know, Newfoundland is the large island, just east of Canada.)
1. "fuckery" eg. "I could not get the report finished because there was a complete fuckery at with the computer system and it was shut down."
2. "cock eating Jesus" I don't think I need to supply an example of usage...
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