From: tnelson@yotta.com Newsgroups: rec.humor,alt.tasteless.jokes Subject: Canonical List of International Swearing Reply-To: tnelson@yotta.com Distribution: world Organization: top down of course The Canonical List of International Swearing ============================================ Revised: 14 January 1996 Maintained on: http://www.yotta.com/rechumor --------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION ------------ The following is a list of swear words in a variety of languages. I am trying to build on it, so that when I go a-travelling, and someone is yelling at me, I know how to respond in kind. Please help me to expand my list by sending: language swear word [phonetics for pronunciation] - english translation - literal translation The list is set up as: swear word [phonetics] - english translation (description) Thanks to those who have contributed and continue to do so. Everyone is anonymous unless explicitely asking to be included. Finnish - Lauri Lehtinen Please remember that I can only type "English" characters, so some languages will not have the swear word spelt out, such as Chinese or Russian. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE LIST (C) Tim Nelson -------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Books ----- _The International Dictionary of Obscenity_ -- vulgar comments in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Russian To augment your list quite considerably you should consult the volumes on Obscenities published by Scythian Books, P.O. Box 3034, Oakland, CA., 94609. These include Stanislaw Kielbasa's "Dictionary of Polish Obscenities" and Christina Kunitskaya-Peterson's "International Dictionary of Obscenities". Hope this helps. -- HMG