ForeignCussWord
#50189
This Troper's friend is a master of swearing - first she lets out a two minute long stream of Polish curses, then she smoothly changes to English, takes a deep breath and recites a list of Swedish, German, Finnish, Japanese, Italian, French, Spanish and ''Latin'' swears, without repeating herself. Well, Polish does have a lot of swearwords...
#50190
This Troper Teslashark studies in an international school in beijing. The preferred cursing languages of most students are English and Korean. I can curse in french and spanish because any male teacher who knows a second or third language will happily share the information. One friend always shout "SHI-" when he is wasted in games but always hold back the last letter so we can decide ourselves whether he wants to say "shit" or "shiba"(Korean for asshole). Another kid likes to call his enemies con. Any of the non-Chinese students will learn at least one Chinese curse word within a month.
#50191
This troper's mother cusses in Italian when she gets annoyed. The two that she uses are "Migna!" and "Stunata!" The former is usually directed at this troper and her siblings, and the latter at bad drivers. She's not exactly sure what they mean, or how bad they are.
#50192
This troper cusses in GratuitousJapanese a lot, often under her breath so no one can hear her. She hasn't refrained from telling people to shut the hell up ("urusai"), however, and relieves stress from dying on video games by shouting "kuso!" Her parents are a bit worried that she's hurt herself, usually.
#50193
My Spanish teacher actually taught us all of the Spanish curse words in the first few days of class. I'm the only one who consistently uses them, though.
#50194
This troper has a habit of cursing in german, russian, and sometimes even ''draconic''. Kwi vobit...
#50195
This troper has created a fictional language in which he frequently curses.
#50196
This troper's Latin teacher will only teach you the *really* bad swears once you've been taking Latin for five years (You start in middle school), but believe me, is it worth it - the Romans loved to curse a blue streak a mile wide). As part of year four (which is really year six... it's weird) you translate Catullus 14, the first line of which translates to roughly, "I will violently sodomize you, make you my slave, castrate you, and orally rape you." Catullus was NOT fond of his critics, to put it mildly...
#50197
Sometimes, pressing this troper's BerserkButton is an invitation to being cursed in Russian, Mandarin, Italian, Arabic... A batchmate of his even lampshaded this.
#50198
This troper was raised by other relatives in Russia. His mother is just a third-generation American. Whenever he says something to himself in Russian, she gets all offended and acts as if he's swearing at her, even if he's saying something like "Where are my keys?" But for some reason she never picks up on it when he actually is swearing, as long as he says it in a personable tone.
#50199
This troper occationally uses Mando'a. It helps when less than a handful of people actually speak it. I also throw it bits of Klingon, Na'vi, and English when I feel like making a point. Anyone who knows me knows that I wont cuss unless I absolutely have to, so when I do, they listen. When it's in English, they listen harder.
#50200
This troper's father, having worked in the oil industry for quite some time in Azerbaijan (a little-known Third World ex-Soviet state next door to the Islamic Republic of Iran), uses some sort of either Azeri or Russian insult (something pronounced like "aye b'leh" or something, but anyway saying it is swearing - I don't know how to spell it...)
#50201
This troper often shouts "Merde!" when annoyed. Also, he enjoys calling his friends "merde-tete".
#50202
This troper's Irish teacher has taught her class most of the Irish swear words, but stopped at "plamasaí". He told us that the closest thing he would be allowed to say to us would be "sweet-talker", and considering that he already told us the words for whore, bastard, idiot and fuck, we could only wonder...
#50203
This Troper has a friend who speaks many different languages-French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Dutch, Italian and one other one I cant remember, and he teaches me all the foreign swear words he knows.
#50204
I don't know what it looks like written, but my Mom told me the Slovak word for shit, and I told her I was going to try and use it from now on. All she said was 'not in front of your great aunt.' ;)
#50205
This Troper used to swear in English all the time. Now he cusses in foreign languages in order to save the English ones for when they really need to count.
#50206
This Troper can cuss a blue streak six miles wide in Swedish, English, German, Spanish, Croatian, Malay, Cantonese and Finnish, and is working on Japanese and Basque, and does so frequently. He is also very fond of attempting to translate untranslatable obscenities.
#50207
This is actually why I started learning so many languages. I can curse in my native English, Russian, Latin, Spanish, Japanese, German, Tolkein's various ConLangs, and even my own conlang.
#50208
This Troper particularly enjoys saying 'Concern yourself with your own bloody sh!t' in Irish Gaelic.
#50209
This Troper knows various curse words in Spanish, Italian, and Croatian. After learning of some Latin insults and curses, this troper also plans to use them because there's a sharply decreased risk of anybody understanding it than any language that's spoken on a daily basis in a country. (IE: Who are you more likely to run into? A fluent speaker of Spanish, Italian, or Croatian? Or a fluent Speaker of Latin?)
#50210
This Tropes is native from a spanish speaking country, and when she gets annoyed at her english speaking friends, she tends to say things like 'Ve a que te den por detras', o 'Déjate de joder'.
#50211
As an Irish speaker who lives in an area of Ireland where less than 10% of people speak Irish, this troper manages to get away with this a lot. Quite handy for teachers.
#50212
This troper is trilingual (English, Chinese and Malay, in order of proficiency). He can curse in practically all of the Chinese dialects, and get into a swearing match in over half of Europe, the whole of North America, and a good chunk of Asia. He's still working on the Vietnamese, Japanese and Russian swears.
#50213
I don't normally use this trope when swearing (which is often), but in public I use German, Russian, and French curse words.
#50214
This Troper learnt a bunch of curse words in various languages. Her mother has no idea that she has cursed her cousins in every language she can curse in. She even mixes them toghether, to further the ammount of hatred in every one of them. No, I do not get along with them, thank you for asking!
#50215
There's a bar outside where I live called Che's Lounge. I told my friend one time that it was Lakota for penis. Not a curse, but still funny.
#50216
This Troper's standby swears are in German; Finnish when I'm extremely angry. I've even been known to string together both conversational and vulgar German, Finnish, and English when I'm really mad at something.
#50217
I say "KSH" under my breath when I'm mad. (Slurred version of "Kuso".) Also, even though this is still English, it's British English rather than American English so I'll still put it here: I say "bugger" and "bollocks" a lot too.
#50218
I probably (hopefully) once misheard a mother calling her son a "puta." That's just mean...
#50219
This troper has a fanfic where one character can speak a foreign language, and I often have to say he just "swore in that language" instead of putting down the words. Why? Because he speaks Egyptian. As in the ancient dead language that uses hieroglyphs. It's hard enough to look up translations to use with the spattering of words that actually ARE Egyptian in the fic, let alone search for translations of curse words.
#50220
This troper took her DVD copy of the Transformers 2007 movie to her high school Spanish teacher to have him translate some of the things that one Hispanic army guy was saying. My teacher couldn't catch all the words that were being said, but the basic translation of what the guy said when the other soldiers gave him a rough time for speaking Spanish was "Man, that really rips my ass."
#50221
This Troper can swear in German, English, Japanese, and French. She usually sticks to Japanese when she feels like it (mostly saying "Kuso!" and "Shimatta!" when doing badly in a video game), but will revert to English in a fit of rage/frustration before going into Angrish. Her dad used to invoke this, too, but one time when he was playing the piano(?) and cursing up a storm in German led to him being called "Herr Shist Mund!" (Not sure if I spelled it right, but it means Mr. Shit Mouth).
#50222
I believe that would be spelled "Herr Scheiss Mund", the double-s being an es-tset.
#50223
This troper, born and raised in the {{Deep South}}, used Swedish curse words almost exclusively until she actually moved there, to the point that when her classmates started speaking, the only words she understood were 'jävla', 'fan', 'satan' and so forth....
#50224
This troper plays WorldofWarcraft. Her US guildmates were rather fond of using the Mexican "pendejo" over live-talk chat during raids, thinking that it wasn't being understood by her, until she asked them why they were calling each other "pubic hair" (the US English equivalent usage is "asshole") and then hauled off with quite a bit of Mexican cussing alternatives of her own, complete with translations. They stopped using the word after that.
#50225
This Troper doesn't use that many Foreign Cuss Words (he doesn't really curse much regardless) but those he does include the Japanese "kuso" and "baka-yaro" and the German "Scheiss", or more often "Scheiss Gewehr" (which basically means "shit gun" and is remarkably similar to the word for shotgun, "Schiess Gewehr"). He also might start working the Finnish "perkele" in, mostly because it just sounds awesome. He also uses variations of "bugger" frequently as most Americans, himself included, don't really mind British swears.
#50226
This tropette knows a guy who, when upset, mutters a string of obscenities as long as your arm. When he runs out of English, he lapses seamlessly into French and keeps going. It's amusing when it's not directed at you.
#50227
This troper once encountered a World of Warcraft UI called, you guessed it, MerdeUI. And overhears "pandejo" every day in school.
#50228
What a load of shǐ (屎) does this troper say under his breath. It smells and sounds like what it is to the dropped T.
#50229
This Mexican troper has lately resorted to saying "shitfuckmerde" in a quick fashion when he's getting frustrated.
#50230
After spending hours talking to a Finnish person this troper's new favourite swear word is perkele.
#50231
This troper has been known to use Mierda quite a bit. Including in a text to a friend who was on holiday in Tenerife, but I'd forgotten that and asked if she was going out for a drink.
#50232
This Troper tends to use the word "Perkele" and (If British English counts as "foreign") "bollocks" and "bugger". She also uses the word, "Kuso" and "Merde" every so often.
#50233
This (Canadian) Troper considers himself somewhat proficient in French, and has a tendency to say "Merde" or occasionally "Putain" under his breath. When ''very'' annoyed, this tends to become a very Québécois "Tabarnak!", despite him otherwise using European French. He also feels the need to speak almost entirely in French when in French class, complete with profanity than no one notices.
#50234
This troper frequently uses "putain" and "merde" when speaking in either French or English (his native language). Go back to ForeignCussWord, quick, before he figures out what you just called his mother.