[Gothos]

I don't really use english IRL and I rarely use polish on the net... not much slang to speak of IRL this way... just doesn't come up.
I do use "kk" at times tho, instead of "ok"...

we do have something of a private slang with my buddies tho. there's a beer here, it's quite good, and for some time we used to start off an evening with those... Warka Strong. "strong" is similar in pronounciation to "pstrąg", which means "trout". so we call that particular beverage a fish. so, sometimes we say we go "na rybke", which would mean something like going "for a fish (meal - implied)". Or call an evening out drinking as "a fish by the seaside", or "going fishing". Most people have no idea wtf we're talking about.
sounds pretty boring, but it's situational humor, an one with foreign languages involved. explaining shit like this takes most of the humor out, always (I dare you to make people laugh after you translate a foreign pun that doesn't apply to your language)

[Mezla PigDog]

I'm pretty sure I don't use much slang. If I do, it is so ingrained that I don't even notice it. I swear like a sailor instead.

[MTS]

I like asshat, and r-tard mostly. There are many others, I'm sure, but like Mez, they're so ingrained I don't notice them.

[cerveza_fiesta]

been heavy into the shit hyphenations lately

shit-tard
shit-heel
shit-teeth
shit-bake

are all in heavy rotation most days.

Along with....and this is the most annoying one to me is "deadly" used to describe something cool. Like THAT CONCERT WAS EFFIN DEADLY!

not cause its that bad, I've just been overusing it

[MTS]

Ones that I use that really annoy me are 'heaps good' and putting 'but' at the end of sentences, like 'it was really good but.' That's just because I'm a grammar freak though.

I overuse the word 'awesome', mainly because it's a totally awesome word.

[Cougar]

I use the word 'c**t' far too much usually in conjunction with 'fucking'. I also use 'fucking' and 'fuck' instead of 'errrm' and 'knobhead' I find hilarious.

"You are doing my ring in" would be a favorite for when I am iritated and any US ghetto slang spoken in a broad Lancashire accent seems to make people chuckle.

[cerveza_fiesta]

Cougar, on 26 January 2010 - 01:03 PM, said:

I use the word 'c**t' far too much usually in conjunction with 'fucking'. I also use 'fucking' and 'fuck' instead of 'errrm' and 'knobhead' I find hilarious.

"You are doing my ring in" would be a favorite for when I am iritated and any US ghetto slang spoken in a broad Lancashire accent seems to make people chuckle.

aaaah. the ole C-bomb

I'm with you on that one Cougar.

I had a good experience with dropping said bomb in Alabama over christmas break. I have a bad habit of swearing really loud when I fall off a climbing route that I've been trying really hard on. Down in alabama, the climbers are surprisingly clean-spoken....while atlantic canadians (me) are not. Screaming C*NT a couple times after falling earned me the most quizzical and disapproving looks I've ever received.

Its an odd combo, the quizzical and disapproving look....its like eyebrows raised with "did he just say what I think he said"....and combine it with a frown of "that is so ridiculously offensive".

I felt cool and dirty at the same time. Just like smoking.

[MTS]

I try to stay away from the C-bomb. Not because I find it particularly offensive, but because of the indignant looks I get from people.

[Jusentantaka]

Cougar, on 26 January 2010 - 01:03 PM, said:

I use the word 'c**t' far too much usually in conjunction with 'fucking'. I also use 'fucking' and 'fuck' instead of 'errrm' and 'knobhead' I find hilarious.

"You are doing my ring in" would be a favorite for when I am iritated and any US ghetto slang spoken in a broad Lancashire accent seems to make people chuckle.

I used to say c**t enough to make Al Swearengen blush, somehow I just gave it up. but it is such a delightful little word if used at the right time to maximize indignation and general sputtery fish blabbering.


Interesting. c**t is censored, every other word i've ever bothered to type here isnt.

This post has been edited by Jusentantaka: 26 January 2010 - 03:11 PM

[Slow Ben]

My favorite lately have been calling my friends "dumbcrack".

Its always "hammered" when i'm drunk.

I'm trying to think of more, but its surprisingly hard.


edit-thats what she said.

This post has been edited by Slow Ben: 26 January 2010 - 03:48 PM

[Cougar]

C-unit is censored because I changed it cos it makes Hetan cry, nothing else is cos the people who have the keys to the swear filter like Silencer, Abyss, Rodeo and me are not exactly responsible or paragons of virtue ourselves.

[Jusentantaka]

OK I guess? Though you should have changed it so it substitutes something like 'cabbage patch'

[Macros]

same as mezla, swear constantly and don't realise I'm doing it.
probably use the word like too much, and a variety of local slang that most people wouldnt understand anyway

[Gothos]

makes you wonder, where in humanity's history did sexuality spawn the worst profanities. fuck, cock, dick, c**t - and their involvement in pretty much every other curse the english language is capable of (such a bleak language to swear in!) - heavily outweights hell, the devil, the black plague etc. curious, isn't it.

[Tapper]

Gothos, on 27 January 2010 - 09:21 AM, said:

makes you wonder, where in humanity's history did sexuality spawn the worst profanities. fuck, cock, dick, c**t - and their involvement in pretty much every other curse the english language is capable of (such a bleak language to swear in!) - heavily outweights hell, the devil, the black plague etc. curious, isn't it.

English has 'damn' and 'bloody hell', which are both related to religion. In the Netherlands, there is a huge amount of variants on damn/ goddamn, and a lot of diseases used in cursing (TBC and cancer foremost). I think it may be that cursing with god or the devil was severely frowned upon - especially in times where the majority of te population was god-fearing, whereas the use of genetalia was just impolite or crude but wouldn't risk eternal damnation .

[Gothos]

That's just about what I mean - barely anyone will frown at you if you say "bloody hell" or "damn" in public, but "fuck you ya c**t" or "I'd fuck her till she smiles" will be a shocker. People don't care about the devil really, but they care about sexual puritanism. It's more about the meaning of the words and it's effect, rather than the existance of curses. It's their power.

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Leo, on 25 January 2010 - 10:58 PM, said:

Fucktard I got from Red Vs. Blue.

Good man. I've ended up using "son-of-a-bitch" as a result of RvB.

Mappo, on 26 January 2010 - 01:54 PM, said:

I try to stay away from the C-bomb. Not because I find it particularly offensive, but because of the indignant looks I get from people.

I also stay away from it. It seems so foul to me.

I have a wide variety of slang-mostly inspired from things I've read/watched. "Hood's balls/breath" sometimes creeps in, as well as "Beru fend" occasionally. I also use "ain't" and "don't" to intentionally sound illiterate-don't ask me why. I also use "gorram" instead of "goddamn"-it's a lot shorter, and cooler.

EDIT: @Jusentantaka

Haha, Deadwood ftw!

This post has been edited by Ain't_It_Just_: 27 January 2010 - 10:04 AM

[Cougar]

Gothos, on 27 January 2010 - 09:21 AM, said:

(such a bleak language to swear in!) .

Good old Gothos, in a relatively benign thread, he appears to have found a way to be insulting to the majority of the site's members, quite a feat really. I used to know a load of Polish guys at work and they only consistently used a couple of swear words one which sounded like od-per-dolish (some variant of fuck off or fuck you I think) and something like curva or corwa??

Actually any swearwords about genitals are not sexual, fuck, wanker and cocksucker are sexual swearing, dick, cock, minge, cunt etc are not. It's an inherent societal prejudice that nudity and genetalia are seen as sexual, they aren't.

Actually one of the most common swearwords is faecal, Shit plus Crap.

I only have expereince of swearing in 2 other languages Spanish and German. Latin languages to me always seem to rely more on phrases 'son of a bitch' etc to swear and it makes them seem kind of childish and hysterical to the English ear. Germans tended to use a Germanised version of fuck more than anything else kind of 'fick' 'mutterficker', mind you it's a while since I was there.

[Gothos]

Cougar, on 27 January 2010 - 10:07 AM, said:

Good old Gothos, in a relatively benign thread, he appears to have found a way to be insulting to the majority of the site's members, quite a feat really. I used to know a load of Polish guys at work and they only consistently used a couple of swear words one which sounded like od-per-dolish (some variant of fuck off or fuck you I think) and something like curva or corwa??

you only met unimaginative peasants then :>
slavic languages (at least polish and russian) have the advantage of swear words that actually sound awesome, can be a real mouthful, give a lot more space to improvise and are a lot better at channeling emotion. Add to this the existance of incredibly amusing and funny anachronisms, and you've got the best palette to choose from.

[Ain't_It_Just_]

I just counted...and there are around 39 swears in this topic.

I expected better.