When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Mandarin Chinese profanity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinese_profanity

    cào (肏/操) = to fuck (the first shown Chinese character is made up of components meaning "to enter" and "the flesh"; the second is the etymological graph, with the standard meaning being "to do exercise") gàn (Chinese: 幹) = to do = to fuck, originally from Hokkien 姦. gǎo = to do = to fuck (used in a similar fashion as 幹). This verb ...

  3. May you live in interesting times - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in...

    The curse is sometimes presented as the first in a trilogy. Comedic author Terry Pratchett stated: . The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come to the attention of those in authority" and finish with "may the gods give you everything you ask for."

  4. Cantonese profanity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_profanity

    The Chinese character 屄 consists of two parts: the upper part is 尸 that means "body" while the bottom part 穴 means "a hole". The Chinese character thus literally means a "hole at the bottom of the body". [1] Two common phrases include 傻㞓 so4 hai1 (silly cunt) and 臭㞓 cau3 hai1 (stinking cunt).

  5. Profanity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profanity

    Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...

  6. Bleep censor - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleep_censor

    Some television and cinematic productions work around the requirement of a censor bleep by writing dialogue in a language that the intended audience is unlikely to understand (for example, Joss Whedon's Firefly used untranslated Chinese curses to avoid being "bleeped", [15] while the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "The Last Outpost ...

  7. How I chose my kids' Indian names so my husband could ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/chose-kids-indian-names-husband...

    Not only did I want my non-Indian husband to properly pronounce the baby’s name, but I even anticipated the way a teacher would read it out loud in front of the whole class on the first day of ...

  8. Hindustani profanity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindustani_profanity

    The Hindustani language employs a large number of profanities across the Hindi-speaking diaspora. Idiomatic expressions, particularly profanity, are not always directly translatable into other languages, and make little sense even when they can be translated.

  9. Transcription into Chinese characters - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_into_Chinese...

    Modern Han Chinese consists of about 412 syllables [1] in 5 tones, so homophones abound and most non-Han words have multiple possible transcriptions. This is particularly true since Chinese is written as monosyllabic logograms, and consonant clusters foreign to Chinese must be broken into their constituent sounds (or omitted), despite being thought of as a single unit in their original language.