Re: OT: Slang, curses and vulgarities

On Jan 28, 2005, at 1:47 PM, Gary Shannon wrote:

> Have any of you taken any of your conlangs down the
> path toward slang, curses, cuss words and vulgarities?
A little bit.


> But what about in conlangs? Can a you curse like a
> drunken sailor in your conlang?
No. I only have a few. Off-hand the only one I can
think of is ësa /i-S&/ . An exclamation of frustration
(similar to damn it!), which has also come to be used
as a pergorative; similar to "Idiot!" or "*sshole!"

As far as insults, the "simplest" form of insult is to use
the informal gender article or even ruder is to use the
non-sentient gender article.

scott