Compiling the lexicon of Serbian swear words is more difficult than you might think, a participant at an international conference about Serbian swear words has discovered — not only because there are so goddamned many ways to say “fuck,” but because the curses tend to be situation-, tense- and ethnicity- specific. To wit:

• “fuck your God!”; used on the way to a soccer game

• “you ain’t worth half a cock,” a Slovene insult

  versus

  “you ain’t worth have a cunt of water,” its Serbian equivalent

• “march on your mother’s Chinese cunt!”; used at anti-Milosevic demonstrations, “to reflect [his] fascination with Communist China”

• “There’s no end to our luck, the gravediggers are licking our balls!”; to celebrate a sports victory

• “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 — i.e., I won’t be enslaved”; to be sung by a Serbian rock singer to a university class

• “Motherfucker! where’ve you been?”; business greeting

(Thanks to Dana for the link.)