On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Giancarlo Livraghi <[email protected]> wrote: >> Italian, for example is primarily blasphemous. > > Actually it isn't. Probably because "religiosity" is declining, > "blasphemous" swearing has become rare, practically disappearing.
Are you sure ? A couple of years ago i was fishing in the north east ... and everyone of the men (without exception) used a variation of 'dio kane' or 'dio porco' or 'dio maiale'... the creative ones would mix some bizarre toilet or sexual allegory with blasphemy e.g. 'la stronza della madonna' . I also noticed that these expressions were generally the monopoly of men ...and when the women were around it would change to a disguised form ... for e.g. instead of 'dio kane' ...it would become 'dio caro' or 'dio pane' ...and 'dio porco' would become for e.g. 'dio pordenone' ... .. 'dio maiale' became 'dio malietta' ... ashok >While > "scatological", and even more so sex-related, expressions are widely used - > to the point of some becoming "normal language". > > Giancarlo
