Well - that classes as religious. Dogs and pigs aren't really admired by semitic religions like judaism and islam
Cue nazis in war comics calling people "schweinhund!!" -- srs (blackberry) -----Original Message----- From: Tim Bray <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:51:10 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [silk] Sociolinguistic query It’s been a while since I spoke much Arabic, but I recall, along with the usual family/sex imprecations, lots of dog-related imprecations. Just plain "dog!" also ibn-kalb and some other family relationships but not specifically female. In good old English, my favorite non-sexual non-gender-specific nasty has long been “asswipe”. Just in the last 10 years or so we’ve gained “asshat” which I think also very good. -T On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Vinit Bhansali <[email protected]> wrote: > Been reading to many westerns. > > Yellow bellied skunk? > I think it's lost it's menacing tone over the last century. Pity! > But back to the future used various versions of it, including the (in_famous > "you chicken?" > > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> the scatological ones? asshole, shithead etc >> >> --srs (iPad) >> >> On 14-Apr-2012, at 10:15, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Picking up on one of the conversational threads from yesterday's meetup: >> > >> > Can people here provide examples of strong curse/swear words in any >> > language (i.e, these mean something beyond just punctuation or verbal >> > tics) that DO NOT involve female relatives? Extra bonus point if they >> > also DO NOT involve sexual acts of varying degrees of improbability. >> > >> > Udhay >> > -- >> > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) >> > >> >
