Profanity in Russian speech WAS Re: HP in translation

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
 
> Come to think of it, that if I am especially stressed in my 
> everyday life I prefer using English words, not russian - they 
> sorta feel less real as profanity, if that makes sense.


zanooda:

I don't know if it makes sense or not, but it's true. Somehow 
profanities in English sound so much milder than in Russian. I don't 
know if it's the same for all foreigners or just us, but I can use 
English cuss-words quite easily (well, maybe not in public :-). The 
corresponding Russian cusswords I can't use even when I'm completely 
alone, they seem so rude. 

As for the friquency of profanity use in Russia, it just depends on 
the social circle, I believe. I heard many people use a cuss-word 
after every normal word, but none of them were my acquaintances.