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I studied in Paris for a year and was in a language course with all French as a second language students. Somewhere near the end of the course, the teacher figured out we didn't really know a lot swears and insults and took like 20 minutes teaching us. I don't really swear in general, so nothing really stuck though I think I have my notes somewhere.
merde and putain were popular with my Quebec family.
I studied in Paris for a year and was in a language course with all French as a second language students. Somewhere near the end of the course, the teacher figured out we didn't really know a lot swears and insults and took like 20 minutes teaching us. I don't really swear in general, so nothing really stuck though I think I have my notes somewhere.
One problem with French we don’t have in English they do in French (and a few others) is over reliance on pute/putain de as swears, which feels a bit limiting imo since it can’t really be modified the same way it can in English. I will tag on them but at least the quebecois have “Tabarnak” as an old school Catholicism derived alternative for an exclamatory equivalent to “fuck!”, which is nice.
Sidebar: just remembered this very late aughts parody rap song about a casually used masculine word in French that means “whore” when it becomes feminine. (Stick around for the parody of stupid European call in game shows at the beginning!)
Also, I wonder if “goddamn” should’ve been its own entry. I know it’s a “damn” variation, but it’s treated very different by TV censors and a lot of the people I grew up around.
I did actually consider this, thinking how censors usually bleep god but not damn. Same thing with asshole, usually hole is bleeped but not ass.
