But of course! My thinking is that if I'm going to start swearing in another language I may as well go the whole way :) I don't actually swear except when I'm very stressed out but it seems like a good habit to get into, so that when it does happen I won't be offending everyone in hearing range.
I'm trying to work out how to conjugate the verb so that I can use it as a single word like in English, except it occurs to me that the English version is equally grammatically incorrect. So I think I'll go with the imperative form /štagel/ as my ultimate swearword of choice.(apologies if it's still grammatically incorrect, I'm basing it off my knowledge of the Hebrew version of "shut up", /štok/, and which appears to be formed by moving it to future tense and then removing the prefix that indicates subject) This also has the benefit of containing the nice violent /t/ sound.
A question: Some time ago (when I was last in Israel, a good 5 years ago) someone taught me how to say the F-word in Hebrew, but I didn't hear it clearly. My best guess as to the phrase was /leḥ lehiztayen/. Care to enlighten me what exactly it is I've been telling people to do to themselves, now that it seems I've been using the wrong verb all this time? I'd hate to think I've been telling them to scrub themselves or the like..
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Re: Ah, swearing in Hebrew...
Date: 2006-09-29 12:35 am (UTC)I don't actually swear except when I'm very stressed out but it seems like a good habit to get into, so that when it does happen I won't be offending everyone in hearing range.
I'm trying to work out how to conjugate the verb so that I can use it as a single word like in English, except it occurs to me that the English version is equally grammatically incorrect. So I think I'll go with the imperative form /štagel/ as my ultimate swearword of choice.(apologies if it's still grammatically incorrect, I'm basing it off my knowledge of the Hebrew version of "shut up", /štok/, and which appears to be formed by moving it to future tense and then removing the prefix that indicates subject) This also has the benefit of containing the nice violent /t/ sound.
A question: Some time ago (when I was last in Israel, a good 5 years ago) someone taught me how to say the F-word in Hebrew, but I didn't hear it clearly. My best guess as to the phrase was /leḥ lehiztayen/. Care to enlighten me what exactly it is I've been telling people to do to themselves, now that it seems I've been using the wrong verb all this time? I'd hate to think I've been telling them to scrub themselves or the like..