Re: OT: Slang, curses and vulgarities

Quoting "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>:

> Carsten wrote:
> > Interestingly, "f*ck" and "sh*t" have made it into the
> > German language although we have of course own words for
> > these.
>
> Yeah... I remember at a German summerschool I went to, one
> of the participants said she remembered being on a subway
> in Germany, and some guy, though otherwise speaking only
> German, speaking into his cellphone said "Oh, megafuck!"
Among younger Swedes, it's not unusual to hear "fuck", "shit", and "damn" (in
about that order of frequency, IME) used as interjections. The later two have
direct Swedish counterparts in _skit_ [xi:t] and _förbannat_.

Then you get people who consciously use foreign curses as some weird way of
showing off - examples would be _Scheisse_ and Finnish _satana perkele_ (I
don't know the Finnish spelling).

                                                      Andreas