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5:24pm October 6, 2014

➸ Minced oaths

saoili:

speutschlish:

The joder post got a lot of hilarious notes about minced oaths in other languages. Being home sick last week, I had some time to go through all the separate threads and put them all together (but I might have missed some). Enjoy the swearing!

Spanish

joder (f*ck) —> jo, jopetas, jopé,…

I’m Irish. We curse a lot. My (then four year old) son once proudly declared that sh*t couldn’t be a curse word because I say it all the time. I had been convinced I didn’t say it around him…

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    The German one made me laugh out loud. Frau Williams used to say schade all the time, probably totally sincerely, but...
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    Hungarian bassza meg (fuck it) -> basszus kulcs (bass key)
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