On Apr 14, 2012 6:45 AM, "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.
The canonical three categories of swearing are blasphemous, scatalogical, and obscene. Different cultures emphasize different styles and analyzing patterns of swearing is fascinating. Italian, for example is primarily blasphemous. "dio cane" "Porco dio" etc. Russian is obscene. My impression is that Indian is primarily obscene. -- Charles
