For Fun - Make Curse Words That Are Worthy Of Atheist Utterings

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Permalink Reply by Roy Roberts on July 11, 2008 at 11:46am

If you want a fun language to swear in, learn a bit of ASL (American Sign Language). I've forgotten most of what I learned, however I remember a couple of the swears which come in handy. You'll never be ejected from a sports game for swearing :-D

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Permalink Reply by Angie Jackson on May 31, 2009 at 9:28pm

Well to be anatomical about it - dicks actually do *have* heads, so dickhead may be describing the tip of the penis, rather than the head of the dick-ish person standing in front of you.

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Permalink Reply by Roy Roberts on July 11, 2008 at 11:34am

From Farscape: Frell (Fuck), Frelling, Dren (Shit), Boll-Yatz (Bullshit), Hezmana (hell, What the hezmana!?)

From Battlestar: Frak

Firefly had tonnes of really good swears via the chinese influence: http://fireflychinese.kevinsullivansite.net/

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Permalink Reply by Sara on July 11, 2008 at 11:57am

I've adopted 'gorram' in place of 'goddamn' from Joss Whedon's Firefly/Serenity. :D

Since reading this fantastic essay by Daniel Dennett, I've made a point of replacing the 'God' in phrases like 'oh my God' and 'thank God' with 'goodness'. Hardly a curse word, but still sort of on topic!

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Permalink Reply by Roy Roberts on July 11, 2008 at 2:06pm

I do believe I mentioned firefly above :-P

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Permalink Reply by Sara on July 11, 2008 at 2:48pm

You mentioned the Chinese profanity in Firefly, but "gorram" is not Chinese!

I love the language -- have taken 7 semesters of Mandarin between high school and college -- but I just can't get in the swing of incorporating Chinese phrases into daily life. The cast of Firefly pulls it off much better than I could. :)

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Permalink Reply by Roy Roberts on July 11, 2008 at 6:22pm

Yeah, ah well.

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Permalink Reply by Dane on July 15, 2008 at 10:45pm

I know what you mean, I took 4 years of Japanese and it really is kinda hard to and make it flow well. Maybe I just need to practice. My favorite would have to be "baka" which means "idiot."

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Permalink Reply by SNM on August 2, 2009 at 7:35am

Japanese is not the easiest language to swear in, particularly if you're not Japanese.

Baka does have related phrases that I find more interesting. Bakayaro is a bit more colorful, and it just SOUNDS more colorful, too. Then there's bakatare, which if my distant, failing memories of trying to speak Japanese serve me right, can be translated along the lines of "dripping with foolishness."

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Permalink Reply by Steve Johnson on July 11, 2008 at 1:59pm

I use "goram" from Firefly. It's like a lazy version of "goddamn" in the future.

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Permalink Reply by Barbara Jackson on July 11, 2008 at 11:57pm

"Great Caesar's Ghost!" An oldie but still a goodie.

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Permalink Reply by Chrys Stevenson on July 15, 2008 at 10:55pm

Hmmmm, speaking of ghosts, Banquo would make a pretty good curse word, too!

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