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by lbussell 874 days ago
I’m curious about “L” being a curse world in Cantonese. I looked it up but couldn’t find anything about this.
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It's the word 撚 which means penis (lan2 which sounds more like "lun"). You can pretty much stick it between many words, much like "fucking" in English, to add emphasis.
I don't know for sure how accurate this is, but I'm guessing it's the first entry in this Wiktionary definition: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/L#Chinese.
Can corroborate the previous replies; or taking the initials of the words like `sls` is common these days