Fuck and shit just ain’t cutting it anymore.

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    I like calling people inanimate objects. Being angrily called a “fucking waffle” or a “God damned acorn” hits different than the normal curses and slurs

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    You could go full British. “You absolute/complete/total (any noun)”

    You absolute sponge.

    You complete brick.

    You total signpost.

    Its all in the delivery. Say it with enough malice and anything is an insult.

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    In a professional setting: disappointment is the strongest word I’ve ever said to someone

    Outside that? I don’t know if there is a good cutoff between slur/not slur… The one I vividly remember was old Chinese social media users (before the blockage) calling some people “Wumao” (translates to 50 cents). This is implying that the person is being a troll, and they did it because they were so pathetic that they accepted a 50-cent commission from the government to say good/bad things on the internet. Probably still the worst insult I could imagine till this day; modern equivalent might be calling someone “nice job ChatGPT” or a “Russian bot”

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    Niggard/niggardly sounds like a really, really, awful choice for a word to describe someone cheap like Scrooge. It’s not a slur it just sounds way too much like one. The use of the word is controversial despite the only connection the two words share is how they sound.

    I wouldn’t use the word around people though. Explaining how a word that sounds racist isn’t racist makes you appear to be more racist. It isn’t a slur but gets treated as if it was one.

    ✓ quite offensive

    ✓ not a slur

    X you probably still shouldn’t use it

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    Not a word, but my favorite recent addition was when someone told me her husband, rather than flip people off in road rage situations, just looks at them and gives them a thumbs down gesture, and it makes them so much more mad. I’ve been doing it whenever I see Cybertrucks.

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    I’m french and I tend to swear using disgraced politician. You say “Sac à manuel valls” instead of “Sac à merde” ( Bag of shit ) and you can probably do the same with other well hated politician. There nothing like blamming Manuel Valls when I stub my toe.

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      The only French I know is le chat mange. I’m a big fan of your language, even though it confuses the hell out of me.

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        It confuse the hell out of me too. The rules are confusing and there is often stuff that contradict itself.

        I’m usualy make more mistake in french than in english. I even tend to speak english when I’m too tired because french consume too much brain power.

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          I tried learning it for a while because I really like Jacques Brel. Then I realized I was in over my head and decided to focus on Esperanto instead. I hope to try French again someday. Y’all have amazing accents as well.