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 (DIR) Post #21151 by technomancy@icosahedron.website
       2018-09-14T19:01:55Z
       
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       foreign language cusses are fascinating sometimes:«In modern times, the Korean phrase "eat yeot" [a traditional confection] (엿 먹어라) has a vulgar meaning, comparable to using the words "fuck you" in English. The phrase originated from the middle-school entry exams scandal of 1964 [...]»https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeot#The_word_yeot_as_slang
       
 (DIR) Post #21244 by wink@mastodon.social
       2018-09-14T19:10:30Z
       
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       @technomancy Absolutely. No clue how widespread it *really* is in the US, but https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bowdlerize seems to be a thing, from the EU perspective.We do have few of those in German as well, but it's actually quite rare, people would either curse to the full extent or not at all.
       
 (DIR) Post #21259 by technomancy@icosahedron.website
       2018-09-14T19:12:27Z
       
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       @wink I think this is the opposite; something that sounds really innocuous somehow morphed into a serious profanity in a way that sounds completely bizarre to me as a non-speaker
       
 (DIR) Post #21267 by wink@mastodon.social
       2018-09-14T19:13:00Z
       
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       @technomancy Oh sure, I meant "foreign language cusses" in general :) Of course my example was the exact opposite.
       
 (DIR) Post #21589 by edef@queer.af
       2018-09-14T19:44:45Z
       
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       @technomancy EET YEET
       
 (DIR) Post #21596 by edef@queer.af
       2018-09-14T19:45:11Z
       
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       @technomancy @embr EET YEET