Foreigners do it better? (some viewers may find this offensive)

[legalbeagle]

To my eternal shame I don't really speak any languages other than English, but I did once have a Spanish flat mate, who taught me how to swear. From that day to this I have never found a better swear phrase in times of utter fury than the one he taught me. Can you beat it?

ME CAGO EN LAS BISAGRAS DEL ATAUD DE TU PUTA MADRE!!!!!!!

[i shit on the hinges of the coffin of your whore mother]

[brum]

PENTATUS!!!!

(potato-head in Welsh)

[brum]

ok you win.

[HonaloochieB]

LegalB, I don't know the Spanish version, but I was once told by a Spaniard that the phrase,'BRING ME YOUR SISTER' spoken with a curled lip and a contemptuous snarl can start a fight in an empty room, round Barcelona way.

[giggirl]

My beautiful Spanish friend taught me to say

Pero qu? co?o

it doesn't count unless you spit it out with real venom

[giggirl]

I bet Mockney knows some choice "cojones" quotes. Where is he?

[brum]

giggirl Wrote:

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> My beautiful Spanish friend taught me to say

>

> Pero qu? co?o

>

> it doesn't count unless you spit it out with real

> venom

You mean like this....?

I still don't know what it means (apart from the last word which is very rude!)

[Narnia]

I hear that last word all the time when I visit my Spanish outlaws. It may translate as being very rude but must be taken in context I think.

[HonaloochieB]

POGUE MAHONE.

[brum]

translates as...?

[Narnia]

kiss my bottom

[giggirl]

Narnia Wrote:

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> >

> I hear that last word all the time when I visit my

> Spanish outlaws. It may translate as being very

> rude but must be taken in context I think.

In exactly what context do you say the word cunt without it being rude? Give me some examples of non-rude usage? Please.

[giggirl]

HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> POGUE MAHONE.

Hoochie, I've never been able to figure out which word is kiss and which word is arse? What do you say?

px

[legalbeagle]

I still think the Spanish are winning so far:

Me cago en la leche! (I shit in the milk) is also fantastically weird and insulting. (It's a reference to one's mother's milk).

[Narnia]

giggirl Wrote:

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> Narnia Wrote:

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> > >

> > I hear that last word all the time when I visit

> my

> > Spanish outlaws. It may translate as being very

> > rude but must be taken in context I think.

>

>

> In exactly what context do you say the word @#$%&

> without it being rude? Give me some examples of

> non-rude usage? Please.

Co?o is a vulgar word for a woman's vulva or vagina. It is frequently translated as "cunt" (and is, indeed, etymologically related) but is in reality significantly less offensive (it is much more common to hear the word co?o on Spanish television than the word cunt on British television, for example). In Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic it is amongst the most popular of curse words. The word is frequently used as an interjection, expressing surprise, anger or frustration. If you hit your finger with a hammer, ?Co?o! would be like "Shit!" or "Goddamn it!" It is also common to use the expression ?Pero qu? co?o? that could be translated as "What the fuck?" However, in Colombia it also means "diaper." Its usage was so common among Peninsular Spaniards in the Philippines that konyo became the Tagalog name for upper class people.

Does this help?

[karter]

a spikka sevral languagiz ,but, choccy allah, (our day will come)

[giggirl]

LegalB, where is this all coming from honey? Have you had some bad holiday experience? I know it isn't sour grapes 'cos of the football.

Px

[giggirl]

Oh dear lord Narnia. Diaper! Are you serious! Can you just imagine the fun you could have with the ED yummies there.

[legalbeagle]

I have spent the last two days on the phone to: four car insurance companies, the Inland Revenue, Southwark Council, two grumpy and expensive lawyers, Thames Water and my mother in law.

I'm a little overwrought.

[giggirl]

Go for it then LegalB. When you've done profaning can I recommend a nice G&T.

[karter]

sing your heart out luv.

[brum]

karter Wrote:

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> sing your heart out luv.

Con fuoco!

[legalbeagle]

Tu hermano no tiene la ingle!

Your brother has no groin

*hic*

[brum]

Aha...I see a pattern forming here. If you want to insult anyone in Spanish, you have to refer to one's family members. Mother, brother, sister.... anyone know if fathers get a mention!

[karter]

turkish-eshed eshek- ( i fukc your fathers head)