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[RedKing]

Chinese swears from Firefly are pretty great, too.

"Liou coe shway duh biao-tze huh hoe-tze duh ur-tze." - "Stupid son of a drooling whore and a monkey."

Yeah, unfortunately Firefly zhonghua isn't quite accurate. But entertaining nonetheless. One source I found said this is probably based on a real insult, biaozi de erzi, lit. "whore's child" (similar to "son of a bitch")

Firefly is also set five hundred years in the future. Accuracy is optional.

Verily, thou art a strange notion, my lord! The speech of men doth not change like the season, but lies immortal in stone -- unmoved by the passing fancy of the common folk. 

One of my favorite things about Chinese swears is that the logical consequence of the swear is not an issue.

That isn't the case in English either. Or most languages, actually...

I have a hard time imagining somebody (in English) yelling "Fuck your uncle!" at an animal or inanimate object without getting some odd looks.

Granted, I do have one friend who would frequently invent novel swear phrases when agitated. Which was hilarious enough that we would go out of our way to agitate him. I distinctly remember "flying fucking mother of a shitter" being one of his crowning moments of WTF. xD

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I have a hard time imagining somebody (in English) yelling "Fuck your uncle!" at an animal or inanimate object without getting some odd looks.

I'm pretty sure I've heard that. I think I actually might have done that.

[Frumple]

I've... actually seen that line a few times, in real life. No real odd looks about. Cursing is cursing, for most people consistency and logic are irrelevant.

Which is why their cursing isn't very interesting and kinda' mundane. Insult should be an art, and if you're going to spew vulgarities you should at least be doing something interesting with it. Iambic pentameter, swapping between multiple languages, whatever really. Make some work out of it. Seussian swearing is a neat way to pass the afternoon.

[Levi]

Damn it Harper.     

[Xantalos]

Damn it Harper.     

HNNNHGDAMMIT

[RedKing]

I have a hard time imagining somebody (in English) yelling "Fuck your uncle!" at an animal or inanimate object without getting some odd looks.

I'm pretty sure I've heard that. I think I actually might have done that.

(that's my odd look)

[Bill the dwarf]

Damn it Harper.     

He gon fuck yo lakes, ya'll nor'ners.
_{Today is not my day for creative swaering about things not relevant to me and my non-canadianism, it seems. Best I could think of.}

[Aklyon]

Oh god.
I can't tell whether to swear at them for being even more terrible at this than I thought or laugh at them for not even being able to secrecy correctly.

[Knight of Fools]

Today, some lady went into the bathroom, gave birth to and then drowned her newborn child at the Walmart I work at.

It made me very angry.

[Reelya]

Blargh, horrible and stupid. That lady's on her way to prison now.

[Aklyon]

Today, some lady went into the bathroom, gave birth to and then drowned her newborn child at the Walmart I work at.

It made me very angry.

Thats...something. Not sure I want to know how that is done in a walmart of all places.

[Xantalos]

Today, some lady went into the bathroom, gave birth to and then drowned her newborn child at the Walmart I work at.

It made me very angry.

...
_{I'm going to go try to not destroy something now.}

[kaijyuu]

Today, some lady went into the bathroom, gave birth to and then drowned her newborn child at the Walmart I work at.

It made me very angry.

* kaijyuu is completely at a loss for words.

[Aklyon]

Oh god.
I can't tell whether to swear at them for being even more terrible at this than I thought or laugh at them for not even being able to secrecy correctly.

OH FUCK OFF YOU ITU BASTARDS! YOU WERE MADE FOR TELEGRAPHS YOU DIPSHITS!

Telegraphs that apparently can't even do secrecy right at that.

[Xantalos]

Well they do that too, but I thought you were concerned about corruption.