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Curse!

ya ustra, 8 Septemba 2014

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ustra (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 8 Septemba 2014 8:11:45 alasiri

Please share all your cursings and swear words that you know in Esperanto!

mbalicki (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 8 Septemba 2014 8:27:50 alasiri

My favourite one is of course “putino” (whore, slut, hooker). ridego.gif

EDIT: Fair amount of swear words can be found in a pamphlet Tabuaj vortoj en Esperanto: Vortaro kun ekzemploj pri praktika uzado (1991) by Hèctor Alòs and Kiril Velkov.

kaŝperanto (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 8 Septemba 2014 9:11:41 alasiri

One of the more creative ones I've heard is "viringo" (man-socket or "receptacle for a man" ), with the same meaning as putino (which is also a bit creative - "female well" ).

Most of them have similar words to English (fik', fek, damne, etc.), but other than those I don't know too many. Interestingly you can tell someone to F off with one word in Esperanto, "forfikigxu". Whoever said Esperanto wasn't efficient okulumo.gif

mbalicki (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 8 Septemba 2014 9:50:03 alasiri

kaŝperanto:with the same meaning as putino (which is also a bit creative - "female well" ).
No no, “putino” doesn't have anything to do with “puto” (well). It's related to words from Romance languages, like “putain” (fr., jer., ), “puttana” (it.), “puta” (sp., pt., cat. occ., ast.), “putane” (frl.) but also “πουτάνα” (gr.) and “putain” (wl.).

I must admit, that this false etymology (putin·o → put·in·o) is rather funny. ridego.gif Nevertheless, one should know, that if this word was to be included in the dictionary by Zamenhof, then he would probably alter the root and make it “puteno” or something like that.

erinja (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 9 Septemba 2014 5:46:23 alasiri

Profanity doesn't really belong in these forums.

mbalicki (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 9 Septemba 2014 6:30:36 alasiri

Well, we're not going to throw insults at each other. ridego.gif And a discussion about swear words, as a linguistically interesting part of the language, definitely should not be considered inappropriate.

ustra (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 9 Septemba 2014 7:02:33 alasiri

It also kind of stimulates creativity. =)

morfran (Wasifu wa mtumiaji) 9 Septemba 2014 7:35:28 alasiri

mbalicki:Fair amount of swear words can be found in a pamphlet Tabuaj vortoj en Esperanto: Vortaro kun ekzemploj pri praktika uzado (1991) by Hèctor Alòs and Kiril Velkov.
Back before the Flood, I bought a similar pamphlet called Knedu Min, Sinjorino! My favorite from that was the colorful “Mil papoj el Romo!”

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