The swearing thread!

[Varrdy]

I usually just like to use those awful fake swears they make up for sci-fi programs.

Frell from Farscape for example. And even though it's not a made up word, I've co-opted Red Dwarf's "Smeg" expletive into my everyday parlance. Smeg Off, Smeghead, etc .

Smeg is a brilliant word that the makers of Red Dwarf used (I don' think they invented it) to get around the censors and the 9PM watershed thing. Smeggin' brilliant!

 

[Varrdy]

boludo (lit. big-balled)
pelotudo (lit. big-balled, too) - These can either be used in friendly fashion.

That's very interesting. In England we have a similar thing the word "bollocks".

Bollocks = slang for testicles, often used as a negative adjective: "The band last night was bollocks". Sometimes used in Ireland as a directed swear: "you little bollocks!"
The bollocks = Good. "The band last night was the bollocks."
The dogs bollocks = Very good. "The band last night was the dogs bollocks!"

EDIT: In fairness 'the bollocks' and 'the dogs bollocks' tend to be more London vernacular.

Bollocks is one of the most versatile swear words in the English language! If anyone doesn't think it's the dog's bollocks then they have bollocks for brains and are talking utter bollocks!

 

[Stu35]

The only Russian I know is (phonetically) : Idi Nah-hui. I don't know what it means, I know it's a pretty damned good swear of some description though.

Anyway, Britain is the kind of swearing, it's our national sport. We (and the Yanks, Aussies, Canadians, Kiwis and other English speakers in the world I suppose) are also pretty good at being flexible with words.



For example, the word "fuck" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt8_HybhM5Q]



I'm a fan of the word "Clunge", as well, it's come into the fore since the Inbetweeners, and it has a certain filthy sound to it that I enjoy. Moreso when said with a Northern accent (as opposed to the Southern ones on Inbetweeners) I think.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

I've co-opted Red Dwarf's "Smeg" expletive into my everyday parlance. Smeg Off, Smeghead, etc .

Hahahaha smeg is brilliant. Don't know if this is why it's used in Red Dwarf but "smegma" is actually the term for the oils that the glands on our genitals secrete, which can accumulate into weird crotch cheese. Smeg works as a great shorthand for that.

 

[Zemaddog]

Australia has some interesting swears and insults other countries may not understand. Such as:

Dipshit=idiot
Fucktard/fuckwit=idiot
dickhead=Australian version of douchebag
wanker=dickhead
whacker=milder version of dickhead
root=to have sex
bogan=basically the australian equivalent of a redneck
tool=useless person
have a bat=masturbate

Australians are pretty original with insults IMO.

Most of those are used in America, actually. Whacker, root, bogan, and have a bat are the only ones you wouldn't hear over here.

OT: I haven't been anywhere really outside of the Midwest so I don't know what quantifies as "strange." I hear dickweed sometimes, but I don't know how unique that is?

Hmm this could be due to America's prominence in Australian media of the past few decades, as well as American presence on the internet.

OT:A few more Australian slang terms you may not have heard:

Sack=Scrotum (when used as an insult: dickhead)
Spud=Potato (can be used as insult or when talking about an actual potato)
Sack of Spuds=I'm sure you can figure that out
Sheepshagger= New Zealander
Pom=stands for "Prison of his/her majesty" (A person from England)
Wog=Someone of Mediterranean descent
Yobbo=another word for bogan
The next few I'm not so sure about but I'll list them anyway:
Derro=Someone who takes illegal drugs regularly
Druggo=Same thing
Druggy=Someone who deals drugs

Then of course there is the British slang Australians use such as git, tosser, poofter etc.

 

[Storm Dragon]

I usually just like to use those awful fake swears they make up for sci-fi programs.

Frell from Farscape for example. And even though it's not a made up word, I've co-opted Red Dwarf's "Smeg" expletive into my everyday parlance. Smeg Off, Smeghead, etc .

I've added "frell" to my vocabulary since watching Farscape just for the lulz.

For those of you that want to sound classy while swearing, here's some swears in Latin: http://nawcom.com/swearing/latin.htm

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

boludo (lit. big-balled)
pelotudo (lit. big-balled, too) - These can either be used in friendly fashion.

That's very interesting. In England we have a similar thing the word "bollocks".

Bollocks = slang for testicles, often used as a negative adjective: "The band last night was bollocks". Sometimes used in Ireland as a directed swear: "you little bollocks!"
The bollocks = Good. "The band last night was the bollocks."
The dogs bollocks = Very good. "The band last night was the dogs bollocks!"

EDIT: In fairness 'the bollocks' and 'the dogs bollocks' tend to be more London vernacular.

In Argentina the closest equivalent would be "las pelotas", which literally means "the balls" and figuratively means bollocks. I've even seen the expression translated as "bollocks" in an interview a football player gave.

Do you know if the dialects in South America have differing ways of saying things? Or is it pretty uniform across the continent?

Of course every country has a different dialect, and within every country there are several dialects. Think of all the variations English gets in England alone. I have a hard time understanding other Spanish speakers sometimes. And of course everybody mocks the way every other country speaks. While the vocabulary remains largely the same, accents and mannerisms can make it rather difficult to understand. This is specially true of country people living away from bigger urban developments.

 

[Euryalus]

Canadian here, we don't seem to have many original swears of our own that I'm aware of at the moment.

So I don't have much to add, just watch swearing in a Tarantino film, a lot of the same language is used here.

[sub]Also film editors swear like sailors. FUCK YOU AVID[/sub]

You should remedy that. Make up some colorful ones.

Moosepiss!

Caribou scrotum!

Snowpig!

I don't know, something! xD

OT: I'm a Yankee. I don't have a whole lot to add.

Do people use booze breath?

 

[Jacco]

boludo (lit. big-balled)
pelotudo (lit. big-balled, too) - These can either be used in friendly fashion.

That's very interesting. In England we have a similar thing the word "bollocks".

Bollocks = slang for testicles, often used as a negative adjective: "The band last night was bollocks". Sometimes used in Ireland as a directed swear: "you little bollocks!"
The bollocks = Good. "The band last night was the bollocks."
The dogs bollocks = Very good. "The band last night was the dogs bollocks!"

EDIT: In fairness 'the bollocks' and 'the dogs bollocks' tend to be more London vernacular.

How interesting. I live in the States and have heard bollocks used in British films, but I always thought it was the British way of saying bullshit. Huh. I wish people here used it more.