RE: What's your favorite swear word/insult?
June 17, 2014 at 10:52 am
(This post was last modified: June 17, 2014 at 10:53 am by Tonus.)
(June 16, 2014 at 9:58 pm)Losty Wrote: What are your favorites?I guess the insulting word would be "puta" because it just sounds funny. It means "bitch" or "whore" (edit: in Spanish) but the impression I got was that it was treated more like the word "cunt" in English (that is to say, you had better duck if you were going to call someone a puta). It's not a word I ever used, though.
In English I guess it's just "fuck" or "shit" and the variations thereof, or at least those are the ones I use. Not as insults, since I rarely insult people and I rarely use profanities when I do. If I was prone to insulting people in colorful ways I'd probably use some combination of swear word and receptacle, like "cock holster" or "shitbag" or something similarly dry and unoriginal.
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