How to Swear Around the World

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If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you are happy to receive cookies on GiftRepublic. Cultures in which the mother figures most strongly in the go-to bad language include Latin ones (less so French); also Slavic, Balkan, Arabic Chinese and neighbouring ones. I was hoping for more creative phrases, and there are a few corkers in there, but it could have gone further. Take a look through the original products and there is a good chance that you will find the perfect gift here.

As strong as vittu is in Finnish, however, French con and its derivatives connard and connasse are no stronger than English’s 'jerk'. Perfect for the international traveller who may need to wish an enemy a painful death, insult a person's grandmother, or accuse someone's mother of having intimate relations with bears in the forest.Some of the most useful expressions include wishing an enemy a painful death, insulting a person’s grandmother and accusing someone’s mother of having intimate relations with bears in the forest. But I appreciated it for the sake of information and because is the only accurate part, regarding Italian. Covering all topics from the science behind the munchies (it's very real), the botanical link between beer and weed, and why smoking cannabis makes Pink Floyd sound so damned good. A loosely curated collection of swear words around the world, with little to no cultural context to make it interesting, and no indication of pronunciation guide.

Some of the F-word swears spread more broadly, onto father (Bosnian ), grandfather, even the whole set of relatives: Albanian ( qifsha robt “your family”), Turkish ( sülaleni sikeyim "your extended family"), Mandarin ( cào nǐ zǔzōng shíbā dài "your ancestors to the 18th generation"). In the British-French-German circle, shit , merde, and Scheiße are bad words thanks to cleanliness-focused social controls (should we say anal retentiveness? I must say I didn't read all of it because when I saw what they did to the Czech language, I stopped thinking I could actually get anything real from this book. Among Christian cultures, the line between those that swear a lot about mothers and whores and those that don’t looks quite like the line between those where Mary is a co-star with Jesus and those where she’s part of the supporting cast.

pages packed with curses, phrases and elaborate insults, in dozens of languages; it even includes phonetic pronunciation and pictures. Bought this as a present for a glob-trotting relative who is always on tour as lighting director with his rock band.