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Prof Dr Svenka Savić invited Rambo Amadeus, a Serbian rock m singer, to a university class she was teaching, and he sang: "Uči dobro sine, da postaneš intelektualac—ja ću, da me m boli kurac za sve, neću oko kurca lanac" ("learn well son, and become an intellectual—I will so that nothing is a pain in my ass, so that I won't have a chain around my cock" ie, I won't be enslaved). Fuck Prof Dr Nedeljko Bogdanović, the doyen of Serbian swear-word studies, explained m the difference between curses and swearing: the first merely degrades, while the second is malicious. So someone curses you with a blow to your favorite tree in your garden, throwing out: "May it never grow plums!" while someone swears at you to belittle your greatest pride: "Fuck you AND your plums!" There is an old political joke: Do you know where the border between Serbia and Montenegro is?—It is where you stop fucking mothers and start fucking fathers! Even though Yugoslavia was a land often characterized by inter-ethnic tension, swear words were one thing the national groups freely borrowed from one another.
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