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Oh botheration
Inspired by a thread on a mailing list about learning how to downgrade one's swearing practices, feeling as though I can't swear while at work because there are customers around who might hear me, and by the usual early morning meandering thoughts that being at work provides me with, I have decided to outsource my swearing needs to the Hebrew language.
Reasons for swearing in Hebrew:
1. The fricative /x/* sounds pleasingly violent for the purpose of using swearing to vent my rage
2. Almost no one I know understands Hebrew
3. For bonus points, the only people who are likely to both understand and take offense at my misuse of the Holy Language are ultra-orthodox Jews, and since their narrow-minded and patriarchal take on Judaism pisses me off this can only be a Good Thing.
* It's similar to a throat clearing sound
Reasons for swearing in Hebrew:
1. The fricative /x/* sounds pleasingly violent for the purpose of using swearing to vent my rage
2. Almost no one I know understands Hebrew
3. For bonus points, the only people who are likely to both understand and take offense at my misuse of the Holy Language are ultra-orthodox Jews, and since their narrow-minded and patriarchal take on Judaism pisses me off this can only be a Good Thing.
* It's similar to a throat clearing sound