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Unusual richness of bad Russian words is, I believe, mostly a myth from our stand-up comedians based on the loose facts that (1) there's not one central f-word,
by owl57 6y ago
Unusual richness of bad Russian words is, I believe, mostly a myth from our stand-up comedians based on the loose facts that (1) there's not one central f-word, but several equally important roots, and (2) technically a lot of Russian words can correspond to one English word due to heavier use of prefixes ("fuck off" is written without whitespace in Russian).
- egypturnash 6y agoDamn, I was suspecting something like that was the case from reading the WP pages I linked to and some of the ones they reference! Handing my SO an article about the intricate sub-language of Russian invective would have been a PERFECT piece of flirtation. (Yes we are nerds.)