In all languages that humanity uses, there is a separate part of the language that is little known. These are curses. Usually abusive vocabulary is not studied by people when they learn a new language, but this is an important part of vocabulary that helps to integrate into the language environment.
History of curses
Researchers cannot give an exact answer to the question of where the curses came from. Many people believe that the names of curses in various languages can help find the answer to this question. The most common names for swearing are godlessness, blasphemy, and disrespect. This answers the question of what the first curses were. Most likely, they were associated with religion.
Another hypothesis is that ancient people believed that swear words had magical properties of a negative nature, and therefore it was forbidden to pronounce them so as not to get in trouble. Unfortunately, none of the hypotheses can say for sure who was the first to use the mat and for what. More agree that this is a figment of folk fantasy. Interestingly, as society evolved, attitudes toward foul language became increasingly negative. If in ancient times it was like a spell and it could be used and it was treated normally, then by the Middle Ages they could have been executed. The worst was blasphemy.
However, the Catholic Church’s war with profanity was lost. As soon as the influence of the church waned, the use of the mat became a symbol of protest and quite fashionable. Finally, the taboo fell on the mat during the French Revolution, when the people could not resist not covering the monarchy and religion with swear words. The mat received even greater development in the military environment. Just like in antiquity, professional swindlers appeared in the armies, who reproached enemies, and also demonstrated their intimate organs to reduce the morale of the enemy.
At present, profanity continues to be condemned by religion and society, but is no longer persecuted, like centuries ago. For public foul language, you can now get a small fine or community service. However, even despite this, swear words again became quite fashionable. Many singers have obscene words in their songs, and mat is very popular in fiction. I would like to hope that this is another “trend” that will pass quickly enough. You can pay attention that all trends, including trends for obscene language, come in periods, that is, one period of using obscene language is taboo and is condemned by society, and in another period profanity is fashionable and popular, everyone uses obscene language. This periodicity is called cyclical trends.
French pronunciation curses
Let’s make a list of some curses that make up the active layer of foul language in the French language. It:
- le zob-lə zɔb;
- la pine- la pin;
- la bitte-la bit;
- la queue- la kø;
- la verge-la vɛʁʒ;
- le con- lə co;
- enculé- əncul;
- putain-puta;
- enfoire- anfuar;
- tringler- tringle;
- cul-kul ';
- conard-conar;
- merdeux- mərdə;
- Lavette- lavət.
Quebec checkmate
Since the French language has many dialects, the obscene vocabulary is also not the same in them. Most of all from literary French, Quebec French differs. Consequently, the Quebec obscene language is not very similar. A distinctive feature of the Quebec mat is that due to the strong influence of religion on everyday life until the middle of the twentieth century, obscene language came from church life. Therefore, swear words are derived from the church. Here is a short list of the most commonly used Quebec curses:
- mon tabarnac! - mo tabarnac;
- mange d'la merde! - manʒ d'la mərdə;
- la tabarnac de pute- la tabarnac də put;
- le tabarnac de salaud-lə tabarnac də salə.
Scope of use of a mat
The French use abusive words quite actively, especially with curses. It will be difficult for an unprepared person to resist such a pressure and a stream of obscene language. The scope of its use is quite extensive. First of all, the mat is used by low-educated people, often mixed with normal speech. Also curses are constant companions of any quarrels, without them anywhere. Well, and, of course, the youth loves swear words very much. Mat is a frequent guest of music, which is popular with teenagers, you can always hear it at youth parties.
The meaning of swear words
The swear words that were written above in this article can be grouped into several associations. The first group - words denoting the genitals of people. The second group is the name-calling, such as "fool", "idiot" and so on. The most dirty curses are those that Quebecers use. In the main part, Quebec curses mean the same thing, only messier than the original French. It is difficult to explain why it so happened that obscene words that came from church life are several floors dirtier than words that were originally obscene. Since it is necessary to observe censorship rules, it is impossible to give an exact translation of curses, but as already described above, they are combined into several groups. In this article we have shown some French curses, so you can use them in disputes with native speakers of this beautiful language.
Differences between Russian curses and French
Of course, you could immediately see one detail, if you meet curses in French with a translation. The Russian language has a much larger supply of curses than French. But such a picture can be seen in all areas, it only speaks of a huge vocabulary of the great and powerful. Swearing in our language is no longer an order of magnitude because our people love to use "strong words", but because there are a huge number of synonyms for each word. The French language has a very limited number of curses, which are fairly uniform. It is unlikely that the Frenchman can imagine a situation where it is possible to compose a proposal entirely from obscene language, but at the same time with meaning and logic. But in the Russian language, such a situation is possible. It can be concluded that curses in French are poorer than in Russian.
Conclusion
Swear words play a big role in our lives. It has been used for a long time. Researchers cannot give an exact answer to the question of who was the first swindler, but this is not so important. Trends in the use of obscene language are cyclical. Only at the appearance of the mat was used as a spell, it was actively used by priests. In antiquity and the Middle Ages, for an accidentally expressed swear word, one could get into the torture room or become a victim of the executioner. But with the weakening of the church's role, the mat became again the norm for society.
Now it is quite popular. It is hoped that this trend will soon come to naught. It’s a pity to look at people who overdo it with the number of curses in their speech. It only shows a rather low level of human education. By the way a person uses the mat, you can determine whether it is worth having any business with him or not, and yet you should not rely on him. Indeed, if a person speaks foul, it means that he cannot control himself in a public place. And relying on such is more expensive.
In this article, we looked at some curses in French with translation and pronunciation. You can use for quarrels.