Joshua on Jun 3rd, 2008Cross-linguistic Cursing
LanguageHat has a post called Chechens don’t lightly curse that’s about just what it says. Chechens, apparently, take cursing very seriously - to the point that telling someone to “fuck their mother,” a common expression in Russian, is a killing (or at least a fighting) matter in Chechen. Or, so says Anatol Lieven [...]