• AernaLingus [any]
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    5 months ago

    Porcodio is one of my favorite swears in any language

    Nowadays, the most common kind of blasphemous profanity involves the name of God (Dio), Christ (Cristo), Jesus (Gesù), or the Virgin Mary (Madonna), combined with an insult or sometimes an animal—the most used being porco ("pig"), as in porco Dio ("God [is a] pig") and porca Madonna ("the Virgin Mary [is a] pig"); or cane ("dog"), as in Dio cane ("God [is a] dog").

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_profanity#Blasphemous_profanity

    the virgin Québécois (virge!) vs the chad Italian (porca Madonna!)