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    Default The Ancient Swear-Words Challenge!

    Just a thought that popped into my head the other day. Surely, in the period depicted here in EB every people and culture had vibrant and colourful languages, and in those languages, they no doubt had vibrant and colourful insults!

    Since the history books seem to gloss over this aspect of ancient culture, I'm putting forth a mini-challenge while genuinelly looking for some knowledge on how our distant ancestors verbally humiliated one another.

    SO: Who here on this forum can come up with a genuine insult/cuss-word that was used in the BCE era? (1st and 2nd century AD is fine too) If you DO manage to find something, then please write it out first in its original language, and then translated, for extra joy.

    If not, then the challenge also includes finding the ancient equivalent of today's modern insults. Direct translations of the various 4-letter profanities we use nowadays, basically.

    This is strictly for fun. Unfortunately there are no prizes to be had except perhaps an enrichened vocabulary!

    There are no restraints here. If you do find a genuine curse, or decide to translate, it can be as inventive, colourful, obscene, and offensive as you like.

    Let's see who's up for this!

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    Ne ton kuna! = Dammit!

    (Nu Eta - Tau Omikron Nu - Kappa - Upsilon - Nu - Alpha)
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    Default Re: The Ancient Swear-Words Challenge!

    Good ol´Catul used a very ... err, rich language in his poems.

    Here´s my favorite:

    pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo
    aureli patice et cinaede furi
    qui me ex versiculis meis putastis
    quod sunt moliculi parum pudicum.

    Talk about pissed off artists...^^


    As for 4 letter words:

    merda, cacatus : s***

    sentina: scum
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    In Armenia during EB's time frame, and in to the middle ages it was the biggest insult to call some one a merchant (arevtrakan). Sort of like a combination of lier, thief, and son of a bitch all at the same time.

    Even today its an Armenian mindset that a good merchant or salsemen is a shister.
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    Default Re: The Ancient Swear-Words Challenge!

    Quote Originally Posted by Bavarian Barbarian
    Good ol´Catul used a very ... err, rich language in his poems.

    Here´s my favorite:

    pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo
    aureli patice et cinaede furi
    qui me ex versiculis meis putastis
    quod sunt moliculi parum pudicum.

    Talk about pissed off artists...^^


    As for 4 letter words:

    merda, cacatus : s***

    sentina: scum
    "ex versiculis meis putastis"

    is he talkin about a wife?

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    Default Re: The Ancient Swear-Words Challenge!

    Say in what languages youre talking, plz.

    merda
    That stills being the portuguese word for it

    pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo
    aureli patice et cinaede furi
    qui me ex versiculis meis putastis
    quod sunt moliculi parum pudicum.
    Latin?



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    Quote Originally Posted by Bavarian Barbarian
    Good ol´Catul used a very ... err, rich language in his poems.

    Here´s my favorite:

    pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo
    aureli patice et cinaede furi
    qui me ex versiculis meis putastis
    quod sunt moliculi parum pudicum.
    Heh, great one. I could translate, but to get the true meaning I would probably be banned from the boards for the first line alone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by abou
    Heh, great one. I could translate, but to get the true meaning I would probably be banned from the boards for the first line alone.
    pm? plz?

    for latin class

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    Quote Originally Posted by K COSSACK
    pm? plz?

    for latin class


    No high school Latin class is going to teach that!

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    Does anyone know when the F word became popular. I am not talking about only in English, but in other languages as well. It seems that the equivelent of the F word is in all languages.


    In Armenian kunel means "to F***"

    kunem kez "F*** you"

    kunem berant "F*** your mouth"


    kunem lavt "F*** your good" ( has the meaning of F everything that is good and sacred to you)


    Kunem Mayrt/kunem Moret/ kunem mamat "F*** your mother/mom"


    so yeah there's some colorfull phrases using the F word

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    I think your "kunem" is the same "Konam" in Parsi ,Right???

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    Default Re: The Ancient Swear-Words Challenge!

    Quote Originally Posted by abou
    Heh, great one. I could translate, but to get the true meaning I would probably be banned from the boards for the first line alone.
    Catullus is absolutely brilliant. We did translate him in highschool, but not that one.
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