I'd take that with a grain of salt. My bet would be that they include words like "damn," "dang," and "sucks." In Australia, "Get fucked, cunt." Is a legitimate greeting. It's a three word sentence, and ⅔ of it are swear words.
As a Singaporean, I'm surprised Singapore and Malaysia outrank Ireland too. The "gentle spirits" true that despite our wannabe tough guy acts, we are pussycatsdeep down and are quite conflict avoidant compared to the Europeans and Americans. They must have assumed our usage of Chinese dialects and Malay are all swear words. Don't blame them, Chinese dialects sound really coarse and vulgar.
Buddy the US Navy (and its veterans) be holding the majority of swearing literacy. My wife wanted me to let loose the jaws of oblivion for her to see what swearing like a sailor was like and boy was she shocked.
A friend and I went to NYC. Stopped in a bar called Off The Beaten Path. A true Irishman in his 70s was bartending. We wanted to see Black 47 later and he said that they were playing at his cousins place across town and called him. Conversation went like: “Hello. Yah it’s me. You’re a cunt ya can’t fight. Your brothers a cunt, can’t fight either. Couple lads from Philly are here. They want to see Black 47. 9:30? Ok piss off.
Not American, so I've used "bless heart" a couple of times in a... "give them credit for trying, even if they failed" in an "A for effort"- way. I didn't realise I was low-key insulting them.
the article takes into account what is considered vulgar in the area, and only applies to online comments. So if anything, it's showing that Americans speak more rudely online than they do in person. We're repressed.
He was recently agreeing with Conor McGregor, saying Ireland had a problem with immigration which simply isn't true. Just another 'im not racist, but' types it seems.
That, with a decent melody, should be our national anthem. Anything's better than that half baked woe is us maudling shite flower of Scotland, an embarrassing dirge. What's your national anthem,? Does it mention your country's achievements, the inventors, the literature it's disproportionate impact on the world? Naw it's a pishy wee self pitying embarrassment of a song about another country beating us. Utter fucking shite.
This takes into account English-speaking countries only, cause I don't even see Italy in the running, and I refuse to believe this kind of study wouldn't include a nation that has an entire separate class of insults specifically for calling god, the saints and adjacent figures cunts.
Blasphemy is a form of art here. I've heard full conversations between workers composed solely of insults to God, and they still managed to understand one another. Venice is a magical place.
Just something that gets me about people doing a really good American accent. Just like, shit man, all these folk from around the world just nail it, and then you have us American's absolutely failing at anybody else's accent on the regular.
I took a two-hour class on swearing at a local adult extension school, which was taught by a retired Navy CPO. It was epic. It was only near the end when he would write down what he was saying that everyone realized he was using profanity as a form of poetry.
It also makes sense that if they just count the frequency of swear words instead of severity, USA gets a bump, because it seems that Americans just like to pepper in "fuck" into their conversations and insults, or repeat it as a crutch word, as if that makes the insults more intense. Whereas other countries don't just repeat it (and thus lower their rank), instead they are more creative with vulgar vocabulary and sentence construction, which leads to more devastating insults.
I was wondering if it was gross total, and not a per-capita. The U.S. has a fairly sizeable, and absolutely unfair, advantage if they're just counting total number of swears.
Unless profanity picks up in China and/or India, I don't see us losing the top spot. Which I agree we do not deserve, even just in the context of the Anglosphere.
You can’t just watch American TV and movies to get this. The word fuck/fucking are adjectives used 3-4 times a sentence around here. Same with shit and twat. And that’s in fucking Utah!
That's just the dialect, my dude/tte. The American pronunciation is actually the older one. UK and Ireland used to pronounce it like that too, but it's shifted over the centuries. It used to commonly be spelled 'twot'.
There's a great bawdy song from the 1680's called ‘Ballad on Sir Robert Peyton’.
’Twas not Estcourt the sot, / That knew all the plot, / And could only discover his mother’s lewd twat.
Butcher disagrees. We literally saw a man get his penis exploded by a tiny man who went big, then Butcher said cunt 30 fucking times, then "pee ee es dee." plot of The Boys, you're welcome.
In Norway we have swearing in commercials, on the news, radio, in the subtitles of the Simpsons, even seen it in children's programming. teachers are probably not technically allowed to but no one cares. but in the US you can watch graphic violence in an episode of CSI but swearing is a no no.
Lots of this is US advertising is extremely prudish. Technically after 10pm they could run the best of Samuel L Jackson. Also why people self censor on lots of youtube channels, dont want to get demonetized.
Corporate America may at times be worse than the FCC.
That's quantity, not quality. All of the British Isles have high quality swearing, not only in complete sentences but in paragraphs. There is no craft to american swearing.
There is no craft to a lot of American things, evidently, including democracy, deferring to science, keeping schoolkids from being shot and respecting alliances.
As an American when i say cunt, I mean that is all she is good for. And why it is saved for very few. That is profane. The Irish and Australian cunt definition is very mild in comparison.
Well you can have a good friend who's a dozy cunt, but you can equally be cut off whilst driving, by a complete cunt. One is a term of affection, but the other is a heart-felt swear word.
Was going to say the same. I mean how can it even BE a swear if you use it as punctuation? Isn't the definition of a swear that it is informal and used infrequently? If it is informal and used frequently isn't it just slang?
Who the fuck says swearing should be fucking infrequent? Those fucking Puritan Arseholes who ran off to the New World 'cause no cunt would let them bully them? "We're going to go start a New World!" Native Americans are "New? What the Fuck are you on about Dickhead?"
use language of a kind regarded as coarse, blasphemous, or otherwise unacceptable in polite or formal speech in order to express anger or other strong emotion.
At 17, I told my mother, "oh, fuck you!" for something she said that she definitely deserved. My dad burst out laughing because he knew she was being ridiculous, but later you could tell she'd grouched at him because he came up to me and muttered, "well, you shouldn't talk to your mother like that." No regrets.
dingybasement350
This guy clearly doesn't know about New England. All that "ghat dang it" bullshit is just the middle part of the country.
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
We all need to step our game up! No way are we gonna let those fuckin' sepo cunts take that title!
berlinson
Yeah that's a load of hairy fucking bollocks, top swearers are Scots then English, then Irish, the rest can cunt off.
huffnpuff72
How'd they measure it? Based on how many times someone is offended? Plenty of US censoring where other countries will let the same word slide.
TankTrain
I'd take that with a grain of salt. My bet would be that they include words like "damn," "dang," and "sucks."
In Australia, "Get fucked, cunt." Is a legitimate greeting. It's a three word sentence, and ⅔ of it are swear words.
Bluedinosaur
As a Singaporean, I'm surprised Singapore and Malaysia outrank Ireland too. The "gentle spirits" true that despite our wannabe tough guy acts, we are pussycatsdeep down and are quite conflict avoidant compared to the Europeans and Americans. They must have assumed our usage of Chinese dialects and Malay are all swear words. Don't blame them, Chinese dialects sound really coarse and vulgar.
WorkerLurker
Buddy the US Navy (and its veterans) be holding the majority of swearing literacy. My wife wanted me to let loose the jaws of oblivion for her to see what swearing like a sailor was like and boy was she shocked.
Clickbot9000
i think this is one that Trump can rightly take credit for, the cunt.
countbassy
A friend and I went to NYC. Stopped in a bar called Off The Beaten Path. A true Irishman in his 70s was bartending. We wanted to see Black 47 later and he said that they were playing at his cousins place across town and called him. Conversation went like:
“Hello. Yah it’s me. You’re a cunt ya can’t fight. Your brothers a cunt, can’t fight either. Couple lads from Philly are here. They want to see Black 47. 9:30? Ok piss off.
Zixtank
American TV is prude as fuck when it comes to swearing. Never have I ever seen so much unnecessary bleeping.
DownvotesStarWars
Living in Texas I have heard every variation of the word hell and damn. It’s like the whole state is a bunch of Mortys saying Aw Jeez.
I’m with him, we need a recount.
MmmmmSoup
The award goes to the Irish the Scott's and the Aussies the US you can't even swear on tv for fucks sake
MNinNZ
the reason right here
Apeofdeath
amatte
Based on population density he's probably right, however the real issue is what constitutes as swearing if everyone uses the same language
dtallen243
As a Midwesterner that also grew up in the South i have 1 response: Welp ope sorry, bless your heart
4vie
Not American, so I've used "bless heart" a couple of times in a... "give them credit for trying, even if they failed" in an "A for effort"- way. I didn't realise I was low-key insulting them.
danomyces
the article takes into account what is considered vulgar in the area, and only applies to online comments. So if anything, it's showing that Americans speak more rudely online than they do in person. We're repressed.
danomyces
actual article https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384125000713?via%3Dihub
hsalonen3000
He is delicious.
Dirtyshubb
He was recently agreeing with Conor McGregor, saying Ireland had a problem with immigration which simply isn't true. Just another 'im not racist, but' types it seems.
Cilvaa
Hammertulski
Follow him, it’s true!
Cilvaa
Chefpnut
The Scots aren’t half bad.
seoras13
That, with a decent melody, should be our national anthem. Anything's better than that half baked woe is us maudling shite flower of Scotland, an embarrassing dirge.
What's your national anthem,? Does it mention your country's achievements, the inventors, the literature it's disproportionate impact on the world?
Naw it's a pishy wee self pitying embarrassment of a song about another country beating us. Utter fucking shite.
feanoreldar
I'm not Australian but I lived there for a while. Some of those people use nothing but swears
DameDePiques
But do they stil count as swear words when you use them as normal words? They don't convey the intent of a swear, do they ?
DignamWhenAskedaQuestion
does imgur censor the c word ?
qyrriqat
Only in Scunthorpe.
PectorialMuscles
No, cunt.
DumpingSh1tandBeingKind2
Cunt cunt cunt.... Nope!
DignamWhenAskedaQuestion
Ah ! you funny cunt you ! TY !
Einstein9073
The Americans did. Since they outsourced the moderation to some other country, I'm not sure if that's still on the list though
PectorialMuscles
Sure ain't, cunt.
khora
Cunt imagine why.
averyspicyburrito
This takes into account English-speaking countries only, cause I don't even see Italy in the running, and I refuse to believe this kind of study wouldn't include a nation that has an entire separate class of insults specifically for calling god, the saints and adjacent figures cunts.
NoPunsNoLife
Blasphemy is a form of art here. I've heard full conversations between workers composed solely of insults to God, and they still managed to understand one another. Venice is a magical place.
averyspicyburrito
One day aliens will look upon Earth and they'll think the standard greeting in Veneto was "canaja de dio càn".
WolvesAreTheBestPeople
Best part? When he does the American accent.
bitemark
Can't believe he attacked us like that, it sucks, man oh man
HiMyNameIsKevinIHaveChangnesia
He sounds like his exposure to American swearing was in a pre-k. What a fuckin cunt ass pussy.
EstoyPoopis
Nobody is buying this try-hard attempt, bud.
HiMyNameIsKevinIHaveChangnesia
And no one worth a damn cares what whiny eurotrash thinks with their subpar ability to curse. Bud.
EstoyPoopis
Ah, you are one of "those" kind of Americans. Explains a lot.
redundancy
Aurentis
Nailed it.
Without the video I'd swear I work with the guy.
Sageypie
Just something that gets me about people doing a really good American accent. Just like, shit man, all these folk from around the world just nail it, and then you have us American's absolutely failing at anybody else's accent on the regular.
Not going to lie, that bit stings a little.
Bumbleflarts
Caacksucker😎
Church14
I wasn’t ready to get attacked like that. Funny as hell
roboirishrumpelstiltskin
This guy is hilarious but I believe this title belongs to the Scottish.
battery1979
He's delicious.
eetsumkaus
As a Californian, that hit me in the self consciousness
Matty3D
I had an English teacher in highschool who was, English. His "north American accent" was your stereotypical cowboy voice. It was awesome.
putcleverusernamehere
"What the fock is this bullshit" ("Follow me I'm delicious") 🤣
Cilvaa
UncleRat
I took a two-hour class on swearing at a local adult extension school, which was taught by a retired Navy CPO. It was epic. It was only near the end when he would write down what he was saying that everyone realized he was using profanity as a form of poetry.
AndrewBrandon
I had no idea there are classes on swearing. Where do I sign the fuck up?
UncleRat
It was back in the 90s, in Denver.
ufoara
surroundedbytwits
“Cunt fucker!!!” 🤣🤣
LadyNetrex
Cock fucker
deetatron
This always cheers me up! “What the F you think your doin?”
FarkasMacTavish
I think the survery was about frequency, not severity.
Bluedinosaur
It also makes sense that if they just count the frequency of swear words instead of severity, USA gets a bump, because it seems that Americans just like to pepper in "fuck" into their conversations and insults, or repeat it as a crutch word, as if that makes the insults more intense.
Whereas other countries don't just repeat it (and thus lower their rank), instead they are more creative with vulgar vocabulary and sentence construction, which leads to more devastating insults.
FarkasMacTavish
Can confirm, am American, I use "fuck" as a sentence enhancer. "I'm so bored" is not as bored as "I'm so fucking bored".
DukeDarkwood
I was wondering if it was gross total, and not a per-capita. The U.S. has a fairly sizeable, and absolutely unfair, advantage if they're just counting total number of swears.
Unless profanity picks up in China and/or India, I don't see us losing the top spot. Which I agree we do not deserve, even just in the context of the Anglosphere.
IHaveAGuyForEverything
You can’t just watch American TV and movies to get this. The word fuck/fucking are adjectives used 3-4 times a sentence around here. Same with shit and twat. And that’s in fucking Utah!
muliphen
What the shit!?
WhatzitTooya
Nonono, it's "what the twat".
FenyxKnight
What irks me is when an American goes out of their way to say twat but then pronounces is with that "aught" sound. Nails on a chalkboard, that is
LusciousLucius
That's just the dialect, my dude/tte. The American pronunciation is actually the older one. UK and Ireland used to pronounce it like that too, but it's shifted over the centuries. It used to commonly be spelled 'twot'.
There's a great bawdy song from the 1680's called ‘Ballad on Sir Robert Peyton’.
’Twas not Estcourt the sot, / That knew all the plot, / And could only discover his mother’s lewd twat.
RunanD
This is cursed knowledge, like how aluminum is older than aluminium
MrFancyPanzer
I think the fact that you can swear on TV in Ireland and not in the US is a good indicator.
PectorialMuscles
Butcher disagrees. We literally saw a man get his penis exploded by a tiny man who went big, then Butcher said cunt 30 fucking times, then "pee ee es dee." plot of The Boys, you're welcome.
IHaveAGuyForEverything
The places you can’t swear on American TV are Network. Not cable and streaming.
MrFancyPanzer
In Norway we have swearing in commercials, on the news, radio, in the subtitles of the Simpsons, even seen it in children's programming. teachers are probably not technically allowed to but no one cares. but in the US you can watch graphic violence in an episode of CSI but swearing is a no no.
Filanwizard
Lots of this is US advertising is extremely prudish. Technically after 10pm they could run the best of Samuel L Jackson. Also why people self censor on lots of youtube channels, dont want to get demonetized.
Corporate America may at times be worse than the FCC.
hovelhopper
In fairness, when did violence ever hurt anyone? Oh wait, nevermind.
trinityj1
That's quantity, not quality. All of the British Isles have high quality swearing, not only in complete sentences but in paragraphs. There is no craft to american swearing.
KleptoKea
There is no craft to a lot of American things, evidently, including democracy, deferring to science, keeping schoolkids from being shot and respecting alliances.
tzahtman
As far as I can tell that list IS based on quantity not quality. If it were "who are the best at swearing" I imagine it would be a different list.
RevolutionOnHerLips
And yet the video gives no real example of this, it just repeats the word cunt over and over...
danomyces
this wasn't a study of craft you piece of shit, fuck off
frischcode
But the Irish aren't swearing when they say the C word. When I say "cunt" I mean it!
martineb72
As an American when i say cunt, I mean that is all she is good for. And why it is saved for very few. That is profane. The Irish and Australian cunt definition is very mild in comparison.
dellyx12
Well you can have a good friend who's a dozy cunt, but you can equally be cut off whilst driving, by a complete cunt. One is a term of affection, but the other is a heart-felt swear word.
krazy3006
As an aussie, we mean it to. Like Wazza, he is a good cunt. And I mean he is a really good cunt.
JeremyPeevin
Was going to say the same. I mean how can it even BE a swear if you use it as punctuation? Isn't the definition of a swear that it is informal and used infrequently? If it is informal and used frequently isn't it just slang?
spittytrinkles
Who the fuck says swearing should be fucking infrequent? Those fucking Puritan Arseholes who ran off to the New World 'cause no cunt would let them bully them? "We're going to go start a New World!" Native Americans are "New? What the Fuck are you on about Dickhead?"
use language of a kind regarded as coarse, blasphemous, or otherwise unacceptable in polite or formal speech in order to express anger or other strong emotion.
CrisprCAS
So you're saying all the fucking times I say fuck I'm not fucking swearing? I should tell the fucking pope!
nslatz22
Do the Irish swear so much we have to put swear words inside normal words? Abso-fuckin-lutley.
DumpingSh1tandBeingKind2
Ah we mean it too don't worry! Lol
frischcode
Bitch please!
woozle
The Scots are poets at cussing. It was theirs to win
SJBSavageInk
Maybe the only reason they didn't come first is because the Australians couldn't understand them. 😂
TychoTychoAlba
The French have terrible swearwords, but can swear magnificently.
2Soon4Baboon
WeaponizedJerk
vanderzee
oh i miss samurai jack so much?! that Scotsman was fun
gboigbhoy
They can fucking ram their shitey award
0570
An example for those unaware of Scottish swearing
Punkereaux
This delicious man is actually Irish
fallswinkingtothefloor
Glesgae is full of "good cunts"
gboigbhoy
Depends on what team they support
IlikehowScottishpeopletalk
I couldn't agree more.
andrewrankin1087360
Agree, i wonder if they "won" due to their massive population
DumpingSh1tandBeingKind2
Yep, if they won I'd have believed it!
spittleteets
Probably lost points on efficacy as half the judges couldn't understand what the were actually saying.
eggmuffin
Yup.
Insults and epithets, foul language of any description, have to be understood to serve their function.
numonster
Scot here: I have told my own mother "don't be a c*nt"
spittytrinkles
Aussie here; My Mum would always say "Don't say Fuck! That's a cunt of a word to use."
Qpnao
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1ZjF0dHRtcWVyeWJjanh6N3hwaDZ5dTRmNjgzZWZzd3o4cGxheTB1OCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/RXOytL7OSgOPYU98bC/200w.webp
ThrowAwayAcct0000
At 17, I told my mother, "oh, fuck you!" for something she said that she definitely deserved. My dad burst out laughing because he knew she was being ridiculous, but later you could tell she'd grouched at him because he came up to me and muttered, "well, you shouldn't talk to your mother like that." No regrets.
numonster
My mum was winding up my sister. I said what I said and we all burst out laughing.