Swearing is called swearing in Cantonese. Cantonese swearing is unique. Widely popular in Cantonese communities, including Hong Kong, Macao and overseas Chinatown, some words and expressions will add vulgar words about sexual organs or sexual behavior. In addition to sexual content, some swearing is a part of the consequences that can be very serious. According to the environment and mentality when using, it can be divided into offensive swearing, rude swearing in a low voice, venting emotions and unintentional auxiliary words that have developed the habit of swearing.

Orthography and orthography

Swearing in Cantonese seems to have sounds but no words. The reason is that teachers don't teach and pass it on because of the pressure from the government, academic circles and society, textbooks and academic dictionaries published by commercial organizations are not included, modern computer fonts are not included, and even orthography is gradually lost, which makes Cantonese swearing and some common words mostly sound without words. Therefore, in modern times, some people took the word "door" as the radical and added homophones to express it. For example, the word "door" plus the word "west" is written as "shovel". "Qi" and "Twist" are homophonic words. In fact, a small amount of orthography can be found in the "Cantonese Pinyin" of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

euphemism

In daily spoken English, we often use "casually" (meaning "casually talking") as a euphemism for swearing. We will remove the key words of swearing and vicious swearing, or use other homophonic words to evolve into more neutral and personalized Cantonese swearing. Occasionally, celebrities make fun of them in public.

It is not difficult for Cantonese speakers to understand the grammar of swearing. In addition, people often "swear" in their ears (a series of intensive swearing is for "swearing"). I believe readers are familiar with swearing and have a certain understanding of swearing grammar. If you live in an area where Cantonese is popular, your hearing is ok, but you can't leave the boudoir without taking three steps. Congratulations! You have a good foundation of swearing, so you can use it flexibly as long as you practice more.

The use of swearing can be divided into "the use of single words" and "the mixture of formal languages". Among them, the first user will use the former; The usage rate of advanced users is similar; Skilled people are mostly the latter, and swearing is mixed in ordinary speech, which can even make people listen but not observe.

The meaning of a single sentence can be expressed by the meaning of the word itself alone, so you only need to know the swearing words and understand their meaning, which is shallower than the "mixed set of formal languages". However, if you want to burst a fluent (fluent and comfortable) swearing, you must first understand the nature and application of each swearing.

Five main words, in order of usage: twist, pigeon, mark and curse.

Reasons for swearing in Cantonese

Be humiliated and offended

Example of insult and offense: A student was dissatisfied with the grade given by the teacher and insulted the teacher: "X, your old mother stinks! Be a dove, so you can get less points! ! "？

As one or two members of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong like to use homophonic language in public meetings, which offends people from other parties and government officials, the Committee on Rules of Procedure of the Legislative Council has studied and formulated a list of offensive words.

emphasize

In Hong Kong or Guangzhou, partners of certain classes or special industries often add swearing words as auxiliary words. This usage does not mean to insult each other. Some swearing words, especially single words, are sometimes used to strengthen the tone in normal sentences, and homophonic words of swearing are sometimes used to swear or joke.

There are also popular words that don't contain sexual organs, such as servant street, or death, which are generally regarded as vulgar words rather than swearing and swearing.

Vent one's emotions

Although most swearing words are insulting. However, according to an article in the student newspaper of the Chinese University of Hong Kong entitled "The Illusion of Moral Highland", swearing can only have the meaning of "insult, disrespect and sexual harassment" in a certain context. They gave examples.

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1.a just finished writing a long paper and was very satisfied, so he said to heaven, "Done!"

During his visit to Egypt, someone saw the magnificent pyramids and exclaimed, "I can't imagine how hard the Egyptians used to work!"

In the first example, swearing aims to emphasize the joy and satisfaction of "finally finished", while in the second example, it expresses his admiration for the ancient Egyptians, neither of which clearly means "insult, disrespect and sexual harassment".