Word order and swearing in Polish

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kurwa means something...whore/bitch
just like shit means something even though it's often used as a pure explicative
neither replaces a mark, comma or exclamation mark and shouldn't be thought of as such. Doing so is just like seeing class trickle out to make room for crass society


actually I'm thinking of native speakers... though admittedly they're slightly short-tempered to begin with where swearing is concerned.
I stick to my statement that when you're pissed off at someone who's yelling at you, you don't overthink if it's kurwa or kurwo and slap soon as you hear the 'w' on a bad day.

either way, better safe than sorry, no?


A far more appropriate way for men to speak when ladies are present
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Kiedy chce się psa uderzyć kij się zawsze znajdzie.
When you want to slap a dog you will always find a stick to do it.
This just might be a handy excuse for this short-tempered women but it really does not have much in common with the colloquial speech and the way word "kurwa" is perceived.

If someone says "Shit! Blah blah blah..."
you don't normally think of the s word as being used to name the person being addressed. To do so would be a strange exception.

Kurwa is a much-used word, although I hear little use of kurwo as a word to address people or things. Perhaps I need to listen more to all these crude, coarse, kurwa-saying people.

Only "Dupę", what means?

part of the human body that you sit on? :)

Hmmm :)

Curse words like "Psakrew bydło!" are kind of old-fashioned sounding these days, aren't they? What about "upierd" (fart)? My knowledge of Polish vulgar slang is (thankfully) somewhat limited!

"upierd"? I am Polish and I have never heard it, but it's wonderful! :D

I thought, Linu, that I'd come across the term "upierdliwy" meaning (excuse me, pl.) "tight-ass" in the counter-culture sense of "overly demanding". I'm not Polish, although I fancy myself a speaker, so I'm probably mistaken-:)))

Tight-ass is possible, though I've only come across it meaning something between annoyingly persistent and obtuse. Close to (but not the same as) cloth-eared.

Thanks, Jonni. Yeah, that's what I figured from the context.

You got it right, that's exactly what it means. You just can't get rid of the person easily...yada-yada about the same thing over and over again.

Tight-ass is stingy, cheap, not willing to spend any money - even though he/she can afford it.

In other words, what we might call "Republican" here in the States!-:))