How to Swear Around the World

How to Swear Around the World
Author: Jason Sacher
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2012-09-19
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1452110875

Presents information on a number of obscene words in different languages around the world, offering advice on how and when to use them in foreign countries.

Bad Words from Around the World

Bad Words from Around the World
Author: Christine Rai
Publisher: Weekend Squad Incorporated
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9780998104706

The first words you learn from a new language are the bad ones, I'll help you embrace that curiosity with 38 bad words from around the world! Here's a collection of 38 swear words I drew from 33 languages and cultures, including my own. Learn how to say: Bitch in 4 languages Fuck in 7 languages Damn in 3 languages Fuck off in 3 languages Dummy/idiot in 7 languages And learn some words that aren't easy to directly translate like: The German word backpfeifengesicht. It means a face badly in need of a fist. And the Amharic word silbabot. This literally translates to "you are the fatty layer on my warm milk" but it has the same application as calling someone a nuisance. What's Inside: Printed Single-Sided Pages At 8.5x11 single sided page includes design and the word definition, pronunciation, language, and country of origin for each word or phrase 3 test pages Easy, moderate, and complex designs. Some you can complete in one sitting and others you can come back to. Tired of mandalas? Don't have to patience to color in a bunch of tiny designs? I got you, the book features 38 varying designs that range in complexity so you can color some of these in one sitting and come back to others. Bad Words from around the world is the perfect way to learn some new stuff and unwind. Are you trying to find an unique novelty gift for your best friend? Someone you know going off to study abroad? Need a present for literally any occasion (maybe not a 5th birthday party, but who am I to judge)? This is perfect. I'm all about equal opportunity insults so I curated this to only include words that can be used on anyone; nothing racist, homophobic, or misogynistic. Millions of kids around the world can't read or write any words including these bad ones, so a part of every book purchased will go to support a classroom in an underserved community. I hope this book puts a smile on your face, teaches you something, inspires you, or helps you express some of your creativity. Start your journey around the world here! As seen in Bustle and the Daily Dot! Check us out on weekendsquad.com CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE. NOT INTENDED FOR CHILDREN. TAGS: coloring book, colouring book, adult coloring book, adult colouring book, sweary coloring book, swear word coloring book, swear words adult coloring book, bullshit book, bullshit coloring book, james alexander, memos to shitty people, calm the fuck down, chill the fuck out, sasha o'hara, johanna basford, leafy animals coloring book, bad words from around the world, bad words

Holy Sh*t

Holy Sh*t
Author: Melissa Mohr
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2013-05-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199742677

A humorous, trenchant and fascinating examination of how Western culture's taboo words have evolved over the millennia

Bad Words

Bad Words
Author: Ilse Aichinger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2018
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"I now no longer use the better words." Ilse Aichinger (1921-2016) was one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature. Born in 1921 to a Jewish mother, she survived World War II in Vienna, while her twin sister Helga escaped with one of the last Kindertransporte to England in 1938. Many of their relatives were deported and murdered. Those losses make themselves felt throughout Aichinger's writing, which since her first and only novel, The Greater Hope, in 1948, has highlighted displacement, estrangement, and a sharp skepticism toward language. By 1976, when she published Bad Words in German, her writing had become powerfully poetic, dense, and experimental. This volume presents the whole of the original Bad Words in English for the first time, along with a selection of Aichinger's other short stories of the period; together, they demonstrate her courageous effort to create and deploy a language unmarred by misleading certainties, preconceived rules, or implicit ideologies.

Bad Words

Bad Words
Author: Philip Gooden
Publisher: Robinson
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781472141576

Snowflake, elite, expert . . . What are today's 'bad words' and what do they say about us, both as individuals and as a society? Once upon a time, the worst words you could utter were short, simple and tended to be four letters in length. Now things are more complicated. To be insulted as a 'snowflake' or an 'expert' is arguably worse than being called a **** or a **** or even a ****. So what are today's 'bad words' and how are they different from yesterday's taboo expressions? This entertaining guide to the shifting sands of bad language is indispensable in an increasingly divided world in which abuse becomes ever more widespread and vituperative. Philip Gooden shows how and why taboo words and contentious expressions, including those four-letter ones, were first used in English. He discusses the ways such words have changed over the years and explores how a single syllable or two may possess an almost magical power to offend, distress or infuriate. Bad Words investigates the most controversial and provocative words in the English language in a way that is both anecdotal and analytical. Combining intrigue and scandal, the book delves into expressions connected to religion, ethnicity, nationality, politics, swearing and oaths, and includes contemporary issues like political correctness and elitism.

Dirty Korean

Dirty Korean
Author: Haewon Geebi Baek
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2010-06-08
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1569758298

GET D!RTY Next time you're traveling or just chattin' in Korean with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including: •Cool slang •Funny insults •Explicit sex terms •Raw swear words Dirty Korean teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of Korea: •What's up? Wasseo? •Holy shit, I'm trashed. Ssibal, na manchiwi. •I gotta piss. Na swi ssayahae. •Who farted? Bangu nuga ggyeosseo? •Wanna try doggy-style? Dwichigi haeboja? •That bitch is crazy! Heo nyeon michin nyeoniya! •I could really go for some Korean BBQ. Na cheolpangui meokgospieo.

Fluent in 3 Months

Fluent in 3 Months
Author: Benny Lewis
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2014-03-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0062282700

Benny Lewis, who speaks over ten languages—all self-taught—runs the largest language-learning blog in the world, Fluent In 3 Months. Lewis is a full-time "language hacker," someone who devotes all of his time to finding better, faster, and more efficient ways to learn languages. Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World is a new blueprint for fast language learning. Lewis argues that you don't need a great memory or "the language gene" to learn a language quickly, and debunks a number of long-held beliefs, such as adults not being as good of language learners as children.

The Stuff of Thought

The Stuff of Thought
Author: Steven Pinker
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2007-09-11
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1101202602

This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sense of Style and Enlightenment Now. "Curious, inventive, fearless, naughty." --The New York Times Book Review Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas. His previous books - including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Blank Slate - have catapulted him into the limelight as one of today's most important popular science writers. In The Stuff of Thought, Pinker presents a fascinating look at how our words explain our nature. Considering scientific questions with examples from everyday life, The Stuff of Thought is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable work that will appeal to fans of everything from The Selfish Gene and Blink to Eats, Shoots & Leaves.

Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language

Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language
Author: Emma Byrne
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2018-01-23
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1324000295

"Entertaining and thought-provoking…Byrne’s enthusiasm for her esoteric subject is contagious, damn it." —Melissa Dahl, New York Times Book Review In this sparkling debut work of popular science, Emma Byrne examines the latest research to show how swearing can be good for you. She explores every angle of swearing—why we do it, how we do it, and what it tells us about ourselves. Packed with the results of unlikely and often hilarious scientific studies—from the “ice-bucket test” for coping with pain, to the connection between Tourette’s and swearing, to a chimpanzee that curses at her handler in sign language—Swearing Is Good for You presents a lighthearted but convincing case for the foulmouthed.