Stuff like “god damn”, “fucking hell”, etc. Anything that stems from religious sources. That includes fudged varieties like “jeez/geez” and “heck”.
And to clarify, this isn’t some attempt to avoid blasphemy or anything. I’m not particularly religious and would rather rewrite the neural pathways for those “defaults”, but haven’t been able to come up with satisfactory alternatives so far.
*To clarify further, I’m all good with most other curses (shit, fuck, ass, etc). I’m not trying to be inoffensive, just non-religious.
SomethingInGERMAN!!!
Okay, little backstory here. When I was growing up, there was this fighting game called Karnov’s Revenge, and it was the 90s, so the characters said little 2 second phrases that more or less sounded like words. My friends and I were fascinated by it, ended up adding many of those phrases to our vocabulary. One of those characters was a giant German wrestler named Marstorius - and some of his phrases were just incomprehensible. So we ended up just yelling “SomethingInGERMAN” when he would pull of his big wresting move. No, not a translation, no actual German words were injured. And boyo did that stick, still say it to this day.
SoUnDs LiKe SoMeOnE nEeDs SoMe FrEeDoM fRiEs
Edit: its highly specialised against people like MAGA, the term originates from americans being angry at the french because they critisized a war made by the USAAlternating case text is more offensive than any profanity
I’ve apparently offended the entire territory of Quebec with my question, so maybe that’s appropriate XD
oh, that was just a suggestion with a topic that i find hilarious
and sorry, i did not want to insult you(additionally, i am not from Quebec and i probably insult them more with that i dont know where that country is)
No offense taken by me, no worries. Quebec is a very French province of Canada, so not being allowed to say “French fries” felt fitting, hah.
Wait are you saying you think Quebec is a country or that you don’t know where Canada is? I guess the username is appropriate either way.
oh, its in Canada
sounds like it could be its own country ^^
oops XD
Frack. Dank Farrik. Sleemo. Kriff.
Here’s a dictionary of them. - https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Fictional_English_curse_words
Gorram it I knew this post made me think of Firefly for some reason.
My favorite come from one of my favorite TV shows, Red Dwarf.
Smeg
Farscape also had a whole made up vocabulary like “frell” and “dren”.
Well, boy howdy!
Just say “fuck.”
Oh, I do. Shit, fuck, ass, etc. No problem with those, just don’t like religion hogging up neural pathways.
So replace “fudge” with “fuck.” Unfuck it all.
“Fudged” in the body wasn’t a swear replacement. I was using the word as a word.
I didn’t even realize that, I was just using it as an example.
My point is: don’t replace bullshit words with other bullshit words. Just use the normal words and stop pretending. Say fuck. Say shit. Say hell damn ass cunt. Tell anyone who decides to act offended to get over themselves.
tl;dr grow up.
“Oh, beans” is a good one for replacing the “I screwed up” meaning of"damn it".
Alan Davies from QI taught me that instead of “shut the fuck up!” one can say “shut the front door!”
Bob Saget
A classic
Common swear words fall into religious, sexual, and fecal. If you merely want to evade religious, there’s plenty to choose from. Shit, ass, fuck, etc.
Just listen and pick your favorite.
I’ve started saying “death” as a curse word
Technically, it’s basically equivalent to “oh my god”, but the Vietnamese phrase Oi Troi Oi is outstanding
Only in german
I like the in-universe swears from some of Brandon Sanderson’s fantasy novels: Rust (rusting, rusted) and storms (storming) come to mind.
A québecoise roommate of mine got her whole office yelling “chicken FRITE” (fried chicken in franglais).
“What the shoes” is kind a fun one. I’ll also yell “fudge knuckles!” which doesn’t really mean anything but is pretty satisfying to say.
The Wheel of Time has some great ones too.
Blood and bloody ashes
Mother’s milk in a cup
Son of a goat’s left stone.
See also: Battlestar Galactica
Oh and Firefly, although a lot of that is in Mandarin.
“Kiss me where the wind blows”
