I worked with a guy for a lot of years underground and its noisy so sometimes you can’t talk.
One day I discovered he was simply making ape noises at me and pointing and it was all I needed to hear and understand lol…
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I used to play an online game, with people from all over the world, and google translate didn’t work well, but it is amazing what you can communicate with emoji’s and they even banned ones with like the middle finger.
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Cody, if you find swears unimahinative, you shuld hook up with some Serbs. They have enaugh swears to fill a vocabulary and they are rich and colourfull 
and too colourfull to write here
Slovenes have much gentiler swears, but imaginative.
“May the dog lick your chin”
Or
“May the hen kick you”
Or
“May the vulture spit on you”
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That explains it my wife is half Serb, half Irish. Not good to get her riled up.
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Oh god thats a strong combination
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Those are interesting, but we really just have “naughty words” instead of Curses. Single word swears that always have a more polite synonym. Some words used to not be swears, like Ass(Donkey), was a very normal to say word to describe an animal.
I have a few Croat and Bozniak expatriated friends that say some crazy stuff when they want to cuss someone out.
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Hey @Pelletpower, how often does your wife send you to the birth place? And l dont mean geographicly
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Haha, o think I understand. But IF she curses at me, she does it in dutch so she makes sure I undrrstand.
Of course this is 100% hypothetical because I never do something wrong:joy:
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Well so far as American English; I think it is a matter of following the bouncing ball.
Every new wave of Immigrants have introduced their vegetables to our pot of simmering language soup.
Then an inner cultural clash between the 3%-16% advanced Educated versus the of majority of Normals. The Ed-u-ma-cated wanting to fancy their writing, talking, slowing down language changing to get a benefit from their years of educational investment.
Normals actually rapidly injecting new technical phrases for emphasis and richness. “I gave IT; I gave HIM the whole nine yards!” Later 1930’s and early 1940’s. Because that was the length of fighter aircraft 30 and 50 caliber linked ammunitions belts.
And then the factor of each generation of Youngers inventing their own code talking to ID themselves as distinguishable. (Thinking they are confusing their elders).
My generation was the word “screw, screwed” (mostly never meaning sextual; but fastened down tight. Too tightly). Later on generation was the word, “Bad, be-bad, is-bad, wicked-bad”. Then later yet, “Sick, is-sick, he-sick, she-sick”.
Actually we are all a little bit surprised other peoples and cultures do no language play these games too.
Languages Soups should be rich, changing, and always a bit of a surprise. Chillis the same. Pot stews the same. Subtly different every time.
Steve unruh
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Right Mr Steve, language is alive, unless you study Greek. I dont follow the new rules any more in my own language. Is it with a C or K or wathever, you just have to understand me. Dont know why things are changing so fast. Me getting old or to many educated people eager to change all every year.
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Haha, I checked with the chief and wished I never asked . She even included a German or Russian march. Pfoe man, glad I never do things wrong.
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This made me laugh real good Joep you must be a saint if this is the first time that you heared that
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No words, this proves it 
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Joep, I had a neighbor from Bosnia, from the city of Tuzla, she was the wife of my good friend, I never heard ugly words from her mouth, but no curses. She was overcome by an illness three years ago … she was a really good neighbor and a good wife, she is definitely with God now.
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Speaking of Greek. I wonder what happened to the Greek guy that had the gasifier set up on the upper floor of some building. That was interesting. I wanted to see how that came out.
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Can’t put Serb Kids and Croat kids on a football field in apposing teams.
Still can’t all these years later…
I tell you they swear a lot…
They are much easier to coach than 20 years ago, but still you must keep the teams mixed and balanced lol.
If you really want to hear some swearing, listen to some Polish people…
There is this nice girl from Hungary at the mine.
But she never spoke so I never guessed…
She’s listening to me and my chum Jacek converse in broken polish, some English.
mostly I swear in Polish mostly he answers in Polish… that’s all we need…
Someone in the lunchroom asks what we were saying, and I say it nice like because there is a lady present…
She said that is not what you said!
You left out the references to genitalia and loose woman…
I was mortified!!!
How did you know I asked she said Russian Studies in University and I knew enough Slavs to figure out a lot…
Lucky for me I worked for a Hungarian.
I made her some Nice Potato and sausage soup and we been buds ever since.
She never met any Canadians that knew what Krumpliveles was…
This might amuse you about stereo types.
There was a comedy show in Canada called SCTV and they had this skit with these two guys from Luthonia on the dark side of the Balkans that come to Canada and become Super star polka players.
They even made a movie called the last Polka…
Levy can actually play the accordion…
Candy could not play anything but he was still fun to watch…
Every Christmas I tell the wife I want to make a 10 pound cabbage roll and carve it like ham for Xmas and she says no…
It tell her its a Silesia tradition and she says no I watch to much SCTV
If I am going to talk about Canadian comics then I can;t leave out Nestor Pistor.
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Joke is the Lutheran Finlander will never throw away a tree until after Jan 7 so the Orthodox Ukrainians will not reuse it.
A Fin guy I used to work with who knew of my mixed ancestry used to tell me that all the time HA HA.
And this one is a sign of the times for some fellow for some guy further east 
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