Re: OT: Slang, curses and vulgarities

>But I have no idea how to curse in French. I only know that "merde!" means
>"sh*t!". The worst we learnt from our French textbook was "Zut alors!",
>which was translated as "Verdammt und zugenäht!" or something equally
>old-fashioned.
It is totally true: In France it is impossible to swear enough to express
your feeling

But in Quebec, there are lots of words, derivated of church words and lots
of them have other derivated that are not considered offensive


The church word "tabarnacle" /tabarnakl)/

is a swearing when said /tabarnak/

but can be reduced in /tabarnuS/ or /tabarwEt/ that are not offensive


there is "calisse" /kalis/

it's a swearing in /kAlis/

but is not in /kAlin/, /kAlibin/, or /KalibwER/ (note that the E is between
/e/ and /E/


there is "ostie" /osti/

that can a swearing as it is or in /Esti/ or /sti/


there's "christ" /krist/

that's a swearing in /kris/ and still in /kristi/


there is /simonak/ that i'm not sure where it is from


there's "ciboire" /sibwaR/

wich is a swearing in /sibwER/


there is merde /mERd/ wich can be said /maRd/


(note that the two last are not very offensive and are not beeped at TV)


And also there are borrowed swearings like "fuck", "fucking", and "shit"
used because they're fast to say

but because /U/ and "N" doesn't exist "fuck" is often said /fok/ and
"fucking" /fokiJ/



These are only those used as interjections


there is "maudit" and "maudite" /modi/ and /modit/

wich is an offenssive adjective


and also /kRis/, /kAlis/, and /modi/ can be turned in adverbs to go with a
verb

these are /kRisma~/, /kAlism~a/, and /moditma~/


there are also insults as /epE/, /cav/, /ko~/, /stypid/, /E~becil/... that
may be accompagnited of the swearings

example: /modi kris d@ fokiJ cav dEsti dkris de tabaRnak depE dco~/

is a possible insult


I like the Quebec!

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