Vengeful and Awake

[applecameron]

*grrrrrr*

Apparently, they're cutting down a tree in the courtyard. (Yesterday, I thought, "apparently, they're trimming a tree". Current data indicates this is no longer the case.) Said arbor is directly between my bedroom and my office windows and a couple meters from the apartment wall.

Chainsaw. 8 am. I retired for bed at 2 am after doing some web page checking for a friend of mine.

Just for the record? A chainsaw in the morning is worse than a gas-powered leafblower, which was both yesterday's and Monday's wake-up noise. All things, i.e., my bedtime, being equal.

I need a good, verbose, cussing language. English is too curt, I want something lyrical, where, may parasites gnaw your intestines from inside-out for a thousand years, or gods curse you with skin-devouring necrotic bacteria and a desperate mini-cam news crew is considered "a little short, but OK in a pinch".

Comments

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

Does it matter whether the recipient of the curse understands it or not? If not, there are more options, of course... {{{hugs}}}

Not at all

[applecameron.livejournal.com]

As long as *I* understand what I'm saying, they don't have to comprehend. (In fact, I get bonus points, then, I think.) These poor schmoes are Mexicano, so there's a higher lyricism standard at work if it *is* in a language we both comprehend. But I'd rather curse their bosses.

Middle English? Latin has never seemed a language with a strong cussing tradition, but maybe I need more study (hm...'impotent cow'...'debilus taurinus'...hm, again).

!! About a quarter of the tree just landed on the ground. *wince* The earth moved, and I don't mean that in a good way. I keep waiting for shit to crash through my window.

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[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

Well, I was kind of thinking about Klingon... but those insults are best backed up with sharp pointy curved weaponry. ;-)

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[applecameron.livejournal.com]

I have those.

<-- points at icon and clears throat meaningfully.

Well, not curved, come to think of it.

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[cereta.livejournal.com]

Oh, Latin has some lovely curses. May I recommend Catullus's opening, "Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo?" Translation provided upon request ;).

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[applecameron.livejournal.com]

Give me head and I'll ass fuck you? ( I'm new to whole sentences in Latin, I did cheat when I couldn't find 'pedicabo' in the dictionary.)

I rather liked

Bibe meum semenum e baculo (drink my semen from a cup) over at Swearsaurus. Heh. It's the cup that makes me chuckle, rather like 'Christ on a pogo stick'.

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[cereta.livejournal.com]

Close ;). It's "I'll ass-fuck you and make you blow me." Irrumabo always has an element of compulsion to it - hence the insult "irrumabator" for "one who compels others to fellate him," or more coloquially, "one who treats others with contempt."

(And if you think this is sad, I'll spare you the long conversation about active and passive sexual verbs a friend and I had in the Las Vegas airport while discussing that particular term ;).

I like the one you mention, though.

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[applecameron.livejournal.com]

Ah.

Is the element of compulsion par for the course for sexual verbs used in the passive voice, or does it vary?

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[cereta.livejournal.com]

It was more the observation that we could not find a literal English word for "one who is fellated," or for the act of being fellated, that led to the observation that, in English, fellatio is the only sexual act for which the active verb is assigned to the one being penetrated. This led to an attempt to create a verb for such based on Latin roots. It was several minutes before we realized that the people in line with us were very pointedly NOT staring in a mixture of horror and amusement.

Language geeks should not be allowed to travel together.