[Buddha-l] swearing and body

[jkirk]

> The same informant told me - though this has less of a Buddhist 
> connection -
> that Khampas will swear with "Aro" to mean "father's corpse", and have
> another more elaborate version (I won't even *attempt* a phonetic version,
> but it comes to about four syllables) meaning something like "I'll eat 
> your
> father's corpse". Well, at least it's vivid!.....................
>Alex W


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In fact, so to speak-----the most common types of cussing in most cultures 
involves verbal aggression against alter's kinfolks, especially the mother, 
or the sister, but apparently from what Alex's informant said, in that 
instance the father seems a more attractive target........Pace Sigmund 
Freud.

Joanna