Hi Guys
This is a Friday off-topic. So feel free to skip if you are bothered.
In my native language family (Hindi, Urdu, Bangla) there are 100s of slang words, some of which are quite disturbing . In English also, there are 100s of ways to express anger, annoyance etc. On the other hand, though German is a quite rude-sounding, assertive language, I can find only a handful of slang words(may be 10 in total, like Arschloch, Schwein,Scheiße, dumb etc.) which are regularly used by Germans. I recently had a quite bad verbal-fight with a native German, and although she was very mad with me, the worst words she could use on me were "dumb, strange" etc...laughable in my language's standerds . Germans are quite "sane" in using the language, how many of them do you know who uses words like fick, shit-head on a regular basis (I mean on every 3rd sentence)?
I do find that German, as a language, have lot of infelxibility, stiffness when it comes to expressing anger, hate or feelings (good or bad).
What do you think? compare with your own language...
