Some discussion on the subject of swearing;

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I would say that the differences in swearing style mostly don't follow any ethnic or national boundaries. Within each region, members of different ethnicities are likely to swear the same way on average, and the borders between Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro don't represent sharp cut-off lines. In these regards, the culture of swearing is similar to the other aspects of South Slavic dialects. In Croatia, I'd say that people are on average prone to swearing just like in Serbia, perhaps slightly less so. The standard Croatian spoken by educated and urban people has more or less the same body of profanity as the standard Serbian, the only differences being the slang terms introduced into the swearing. However, when it comes to the folkish dialects, there are significant variations within Croatia. Generally, the worst swearwords can probably be found in the Dalmatian outback. People there tend to mix vulgar sexual content with elaborate theological references. People sometimes refuse to believe me when I say that in these ultra-conservative and deeply religious places, people casually combine four-letter sexual profanity with the names of God, Holy Trinity, Virgin Mary, blood and wounds of Jesus, etc. On the other hand, the northwestern Kajkavian dialects tend to be somewhat milder than the standard language.

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I agree, I think in Croatia it isn't really taboo to swear. Also as you said before Dalmatians do tend to combine things such as saints etc, in their swearing.

GDI Martin....mixing sex and religion left, right, and centre.


And I can testify to this :I This is very much true, the only one on my dad's side of the family that really swears...is, well, him. And now that I think about it...my mom really is the one that gets Saints, Jesus, etc involved in swears.




GDI Martin.....GDI.