Curses
I was so disappointed as a child to find there were not whole onion-like layers of unknown-to-me swear words past things like bitch, shit, and fuck.
I grew up reading a ton of fantasy novels in which one commonly encountered crusty old swordsmen or sailors who could easily spin off solid minutes of inventive cursing, euphemistically described. It was only natural to assume that there were sufficient naughty words in existence to support many unique sentences.
So I figured I'd found out some common ones, as above, but there would be, oh, at least ten or twenty *more* and even *naughtier* such words yet to be discovered. Alas, it was not to be the case. Continuous minutes of cursing seems merely to have implied liberal sprinklings of the type of swears I had already known and inventive usage of regular English vocabulary.
Which is an impressive skill, I will grant, but still.
I grew up reading a ton of fantasy novels in which one commonly encountered crusty old swordsmen or sailors who could easily spin off solid minutes of inventive cursing, euphemistically described. It was only natural to assume that there were sufficient naughty words in existence to support many unique sentences.
So I figured I'd found out some common ones, as above, but there would be, oh, at least ten or twenty *more* and even *naughtier* such words yet to be discovered. Alas, it was not to be the case. Continuous minutes of cursing seems merely to have implied liberal sprinklings of the type of swears I had already known and inventive usage of regular English vocabulary.
Which is an impressive skill, I will grant, but still.