• sailorfish [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Yeah I think if you're a heritage speaker you mostly get euphemisms instead of proper mat cuz parents don't generally swear much around their kids haha. I remember when I was a kid, an immigrant friend who had closer contact to his Russian friends telling me, hushed, "You know, ё-моё and ёлки-палки are actually euphemisms for ёб твою мать". Me: "what the fuck does ёб mea - ohhhh" 😂

    • Wertheimer [any]
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      edit-2
      4 years ago

      proper mat

      I like the sound of this. Makes me imagine profanity prescriptivists who complain that the younger generations aren't motherfucking correctly.

      • sailorfish [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        The proper, hardcore mat, for which you had to walk through -40 Celsius Siberian winters, not like that mat you whippersnappers have today!!