How to Swear Around the World

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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. In the British-French-German circle, shit , merde, and Scheiße are bad words thanks to cleanliness-focused social controls (should we say anal retentiveness? as a cathartic expletive in Polish (if you’re of an older generation) and you can wish cholera on someone in Thai.

Likewise, mental deficiency is widely looked down on, but while insults the equivalent of ‘idiot’ are common enough, it’s only in a culture such as Japanese that it makes one of the most popular ‘bad words’ ( baka). Thankfully, here’s the only piece of kit you’ll need to really develop your arsenal of fruity phrases, the guide on How To Swear Around The World. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.First Name * Please enter a First Name Please enter a valid First Name, the maximum length is 50 characters. If you continue without changing your settings, we'll assume that you are happy to receive cookies on GiftRepublic. You may utter the name of the male or female organ when irritated in China or Russia; in Italy, if someone cuts you off in traffic, you may shout “ che cazzo”, which could be translated as “What the cock!

It was interesting to see what groups of words are used for swearing but that's all what you can get from this book. For more infomation please review our use of cookies in our Cookie Policy and then Accept and Close this bar. The mistakes in my native language made me doubt of the other translations of languages I'm not familiar with. Sex, though desired, is – in the angry, aggressive part of the mind – a dominating act, something performed upon a weaker recipient. Once you've purchased this item, simply look out for the Feefo feedback form, that'll be sent close to the estimated arrival date and then submit your thoughts to appear here!Funnily written and funnily organized, this little booklet is an amusing (and informative) read for the language enthusiasts out there. 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.

This might be okay if it were a bunch of friends sitting around comparing expressions and swear words in languages they might have learned while traveling, but zero support on pronunciation of terms and no consistency with each language offering their version of the swear word. Keep yourself busy with 100 of the best, weirdest and most wonderful rude words we could find from around the world. In Luganda (an African language), you can make a word insulting just by changing its noun class prefix – from a class for persons to a class for certain kinds of objects, for instance. They don’t really figure in Chinese, but throughout the Slavic world the word for ‘whore’ is a key strong word; Polish kurwa is the all-purpose equivalent of the F-word .Similar direct evidence of church control shows up a little in English (centuries ago, swearing by various parts of Christ’s body was as bad as you could get; now “damn” and “hell” are still iffy). Words for genitalia are the most common focus of preferred strong language, the kind used by default for Pinker’s five functions. Strong language often involves naming things you desire but aren’t supposed to desire; at the very least, it aims to upset power structures that may seem a bit too arbitrary. This essential phrasebook collects the most colourful, explicit and outrageous ways to tell people off in different languages from all around the world. that's why even if a reader wanted to learn some vocabulary units, they wouldn't know how to pronounce them correctly.