• Tonava@sopuli.xyz
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    I’m in Finland and swedish is our second official language. I’ve heard groups of fennoswede teenagers all speak swedish to each other, except they will throw in properly pronounced finnish curse words (like vittu and perkele). I guess they just are more powerful

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      I worked at a Chinese restaurant for some years, and my boss natively spoke Mandarin but whenever he was muttering to himself about something or another he would always cuss in English. I have no idea why this should be but it was always hilarious.

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      As a regular Swede I will say that Finnish swear words hit differently. More oomph in them xD