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by NAFV_P 4446 days ago
Louis CK used "cunt", what a guy. I would love to hear his version of "the aristocrats".

The thing is I'm from the UK, and I get the impression that "cunt" is considered a severe taboo in the US (I might be mistaken). Where I live it is heard so often that after a while you don't even notice it, it becomes bland.

> That's the thing. If all you say is "fuck", then there's no problem, but you also have no range in your profanity.

Some non-English expletives that I am fond of:

"puta" (Spanish): literal translation "whore", but is often used semantically more like "fuck", so "puta madre" can be parsed as "motherfucker".

"harami" (Arabic): literally means thief, but when I first came across it I knew it as "bastard", which is how it is used in some Asian languages like Urdu.