21 April, 2013

how to swear around the world

There are several must have items for your modern day jet setter, and now we can add a new one to the list in this How To Swear Around The World. Written by Jason Sacher and illustrated by Toby Triumph, this is an essential phrasebook that will show you how to tell people off in the most effective way in every part of the globe, and even includes illustrations making it easy even for the slowest of learners. Now, with over 6000 different languages spoken all over the globe, this is by no means a comprehensive catalogue of all the various profanities, but it will surely allow you to offend other people, by swearing or profane oaths, from one corner of the world to the other.

The book description from Amazon goes like this : "This essential phrasebook collects the most colorful, explicit, and outrageous ways to tell people off in every part of the world. Featuring dozens of different languages, the sayings range from everyday swears to family curses to expressions for X-rated relations with animals. Phonetic pronunciation is provided so that readers can curse like a native, and handy illustrations provide visual guides to these foreign exclamations. Perfect for the international traveler who may need to wish an enemy a painful death, insult a person's grandmother, or accuse someone's mother of having intimate relations with bears in the forest."

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