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  2. Category:Profanity by language - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... French profanity (4 P) G. ... Polish profanity (6 P) R. Russian profanity (7 P) S. Spanish profanity (34 P) U. Urdu profanity ...

  3. Quebec French profanity - Wikipedia

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    Quebec French profanities, [1] known as sacres (singular: sacre; French: sacrer, "to consecrate"), are words and expressions related to Catholicism and its liturgy that are used as strong profanities in Quebec French (the main variety of Canadian French) and in Acadian French (spoken in Maritime Provinces, east of Quebec, and a portion of ...

  4. Category:French profanity - Wikipedia

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    Profanity in the French language, socially offensive language. Profanity is language that is generally considered by certain parts of a culture to be strongly impolite, rude, or offensive. It can show a debasement of someone or something , or be considered as an expression of strong feeling towards something.

  5. Category talk:French profanity - Wikipedia

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    Category talk: French profanity. Add languages. Page contents not supported in other languages. Category; Talk; English. ... Download as PDF; Printable version ...

  6. List of calques - Wikipedia

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    Spanish escuela alta calques English high school (secundaria or escuela secundaria in Standard Spanish) Spanish grado (de escuela) calques English grade (in school) (nota in Standard Spanish) Spanish manzana de Adán calques English Adam's apple (nuez de Adán, meaning "Adam's nut", in standard Spanish), which in turn is a calque of French ...

  7. Category:Spanish profanity - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... move to sidebar hide. Help. Pages in category "Spanish profanity" The following 34 pages ...

  8. Pardon my French - Wikipedia

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    Pardon my French" or "Excuse my French" is a common English language phrase for asking for excuse for one's profanity by the humorous assertion that the swear words were from the French language. It plays on the stereotype of Gallic sophistication, but can be used ironically.

  9. Profanity - Wikipedia

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    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 ...