animatedamerican:

ameliarating:

gallusrostromegalus:

nonbinaryvexahlia:

zmyaro:

nonbinaryvexahlia:

one of the weirdest ways that language is evolving in response to the internet is that “bad words” just. do not have the same impact anymore. i constantly forget that some people think ‘fuck you’ is a terrible insult

so threats and insults have to start getting really out there if the person wants to even mean anything. if a person told me to die i’d shrug it off but if i opened a post’s tags and saw “op i will sneak into your house and replace all your shoelaces with cooked pasta” do you know how shaken i’d be? do you know how upset i’d be if i saw “op is the personification of the look you share w other people in the grocery store when some dude is causing A Scene™ for no reason”

So you are saying English curses on the Internet are becoming more like Yiddish curses?

I sincerely hope so but I can’t say I’m familiar with yiddish curses and i am begging you to tell me a few

My Personal favorite is:

“May all your teeth fall out, except for one, to give you a toothache.”

“May you grow like an onion, with your head in the ground.”
“May God visit the best of the 10 plagues upon you.”

and my personal favorite:

“May you get stuck in an outhouse just as a regiment of Ukrainian* soldiers has filled up on prune stew and beer.”

*this joke joke reflects the combo of fear and disdain the Jews of that region had for the soldiers of their non-Jewish governments in a time where pogroms and kidnapping with forced enlistment was common. The soldiers were often the tools of those attacks. This should not be said to reflect any modern day attitude towards Ukrainian gentiles. (No Ukrainian soldiers were harmed in the making of this curse, but many, many Jews were…)

My favorite Yiddish curses are the ones that start out sounding like they’re wishing you good fortune and then have a PLOT TWIST.

“May you grow so wealthy that every single day you can wake up in a brand new bedroom in your enormous house, and put on a brand new coat, and go down a brand new staircase and out a brand new door, and climb into a brand new fancy carriage, and have a brand new driver take you to a brand new doctor, and he won’t know what’s wrong with you either.”

reminds me of that one insult on tumblr that was like “i hope you find someone you love. Who live a great ten years of life before a meteor comes crashing down and destroying everything you love and hold dear.”