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The wealth of Serbian swear rock stars words is a particular problem to rock stars English translators, with such variants as Jebem ti majku!, Jebem ti miša! and Jebem ti kuću poganu! (fuck your mother! fuck your rat! fuck your infidel house!)." Because English does not allow more than "fuck you!" or rock stars "screw you!," the only meaningful resolution is for Serbian-English dictionaries to contain notes marking gradations of "light," "common," "forceful" and "exceptionally forceful" swear words. Using the Serbian anti-NATO slogans: "Klintone, možeš da nam pušiš/Širak nabijem ti Ajfelovu kulu u dupe/Olbrajtovo, kurvo stara" ("Clinton, you can give us a blow job/Chirac, I'll stuff the Eiffel Tower up your ass/Albright, old bitch"), Prof Dr Jochen Raecke showed the difference between Germany in 1945 and Serbia in 1999. After the war, the Germans scrawled graffiti swearing at the occupiers and telling them to go home in English and Russian, not German. Dr Stana Ristić of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts sorted swear words into a hierarchy of cults in Balkan culture: fuck your mother, father, sunny dinner (sunčevu večeru), blood...
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