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The Spanish dirty word caramba comes close to Finnish. It has all the necessary ingredients, hard consonants and short vowels, and the "r" is just as loud as in Finnish.

I don't know Spanish. Google Translate suggested it was Portuguese for 'Gee Whizz', which I'd hardly put at the top of the swearing scale.

There are languages with which you can express surprisingly complicated things with just one word, the top ones being Finnish, Russian, and the Navajo. Some Polynesian languages, too, as Murihiku has told us so many times.

^ We are loyal to the established church.

Edit. This is a complicated issue in Finland. We have two established churches, the Lutheran protestant one and the Greek orthodox church, a.k.a. the Russian church. Secularly minded folks are leaving them, but us who remain, are confessing Christians. The purpose of this thread or the space allotted, will not let me go into details.

I thought that Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox were different.

I was and am still amazed that the last Czar and his family have been declared saints by the Russian Orthodox

Church.....yes,they suffered during their last months, and, yes,their deaths were horrible, but saints?

^ I did not know that Sylkat. Interesting. Strange, but interesting.

Being declared saint does not mean you have to be holy. Martyrdom, that is death by violence, suffices. -- This is my own opinion, not necessarily the church's.

*waits for everyone to stop talking about religion*


I know almost nothing about religion, and I was fairly surprised last time I crossed the threshold of a church that I didn't burst into flames.

^

Dear Krabo,
A few Easters ago, in Jerusalem, at the shrine where many Christian groups/churches

believe that Jesus was born, at least three groups were present.....a massive fistfight

broke out between them...

The Catholics and some of the Orthodox priests actually smacked each other with one of

those big crosses on a pole that they carry!