The Local's French grammar tips. Image: Patick Fore_Meizhi Lang via Unsplash Of all the rich and varied parts of the French language, it is perhaps swearing that poses the biggest translation problem.

What's in a swear? The world's filthiest words typically refer to something vulgar or taboo, for one. But there's something else swears across the world's languages have in common. They're all missing ...

Pierre-Yves Modicom has received funding from the Université Bordeaux-Montaigne. Thanks are due to S. for her useful comments during and before the writing of this article. When French president ...

There's a common trope in sci fi when characters curse. RYAN MCKAY: I watched "Mork & Mindy" when I was growing up. CHANG: That's psychologist Ryan McKay. He's, of course, talking about a sitcom that ...

Swearing helps us to be more expressive, and can even help us with pain relief and with tasks like lifting weights. People swear in five different ways: Descriptively, idiomatically, abusively, ...