cursing
most of curse atleast once a day. generally its out of anger or disappointment, or even happiness :) and when we do, we typically curse a person as such, or go one generation upwards. then the target would be the cursee's parents :)
but thats all the languages has to offer us. knowing tamil, english, and hindi to some extent, I always used to wonder if there is any language that has words to go further up :) just for a change.
and yes there is. its arabic guys, apparently they go even 7 generations deep :)
interestingly, hebrew speaking people curse a lot in arabic. now thats what I call a healthy influence :)
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Cursing and Languages.!
And 7 generations in Arabic?
Wonder where you got all these curse-stats from.?
Me - I go only 1 level up.!
narayanan -- he he. my manager told me this fact :)
Is there a curse word in Tamil? I mean a real word not the insult your mother, sister type of curse. Can teach mea?
Cursing (the one u r talking about-verbal) is just an outlet of helplessness. U curse (that too within urself) when u can't do anything to improve the situation. How many of us mean it.. nomatter how far u go into pulling the gererations for the individual's fault. Its temp and volatile too..
stats on cursing!! good going!!!
color maaarichi.. White noise pachai pachaiya irukku
seri mukyamana matter, anda arabic varthai yenna? enlighten panna mudiyuma?
No, matter which language you choose and curse and whom you curse, finally it all comes back to you. Have you ever noticed???
maran, I think desi@heart has answered ur question :)
desi, thats very true :) maybe they chose to curse in arabic so that it will be known to all :)
"its me", thats why I mentioned that we curse even out of happiness. some people just enjoy cursing, its like a common greeting. so why not greet the forefathers as well :) just kidding :)
sathya, ellam oru change kaaga thaan machi.
vatsan, thanks for visiting. I will enlighten you all with that word very soon :)
anon, its plain Newton's 3rd law man. and by the way, haven't u ever enjoyed when someone cursed you :)
hmm..what ever language, race, color etc...cursing always exists in humans..
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