Among other profanity, including some rather foul-mouthed, which I and my brother's kids would gather on the street and brought home produced as proof of our citizenship in the adult world, there is one that our grandmother was never willing to welcome to your dinner table: "Picio. So I did not understand why "Picio" looked like the most detestable of "fuck", which also came from the same galaxy that lacked semantic plus coloring Regional able to make nice and friendly even the most unique vulgarity. In fact, cleared through clenched teeth "casino" (which she still evokes the idea of \u200b\u200ba brothel), "shit" and even "asshole", remained "Picio" non-negotiable to mark the border of decency with respect to which the minutes would not be been more willing to retreat.
Years later, in retrospect, it occurred to me that her grandmother, most of the term itself, probably annoyed sound, more sound and the image he had of those who could use that expression unpronounceable (which in fact she never spoke, quoting as "that word there).
I mean, my grandmother probably associated the idea of \u200b\u200b"Picio" not to its meaning, but the appearance, voice and tone of some real person who presumably used it frequently and that must have seemed very rude. The problem, in short, was not the end in itself, but the world it evoked.
This whole premise that today the magazine "Focus" has published the results of an informal survey conducted among its readers asking what were, in their view, the bad words (115 of insults, curses and curses) of the more profanity our language. For the results of the survey (and the plot of "volgarometro") I refer you to the following link: http://www.focus.it/Community/cs/blogs/vito_dixit/archive/2009/05/16/327851. aspx.
Here I will confine myself to some remarks.
The first is that at the top there are two oaths, which even the author of the survey have the heart to return to writing and even atheists (33% of boaters said that was) considered a taboo impassable, with good peace of paranoids who see no threat to a god-believers. Also note that the blasphemy against the Virgin Mary is considered, albeit a little more serious than that against God, but it is no surprise in a country of big babies has always been devoted to the Blessed Virgin of the Father rather than linen stretch Onnipatente (meaning one who provides the car keys)
Second observation.
Among the insults given in terms of ranking themselves appear innocuous as "porter", "lackeys" or "proletarian" which frankly did not know you could use to hurt someone. However, there is ever that simple identity - social, sexual, ethnic, religious, professional - is the natural space dell'ingiuria. Not mislead the fact that "Jew", "rabbi", "negro" or "Gypsy" are in the second half of the league. Firstly because it is not uncommon, when they appear together by a qualifier ("dirty," "bastard," "shit", etc...) And why those who say the most often considered not to offend anyone but to make a simple act of "ascription" in a category (lower, ça va sans dire: the essential reference for in-depth book entitled Frederick Faloppa like this post) .
Third observation.
As a boy, at worst, it can feel to the "asshole" to insult women heavier ("whore" and the like) spring from the bowels of the most tenacious slimy sexist and of our civilization. Not to mention the homosexuals, that even the detergent of political correctness ("gay" instead of "queer") enough to bleach the stain of original data from their own condition. Last Observation
According to the survey, "fascist" and "Nazi" offenses are still considered much heavier than "communist". Judging by those who govern this country, I would never have said.
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