Profanities are quite common in all cultures. Being in a multi-cultural and multi-linguistic society that is Malaysia, we are blessed with the knowledge of multi-profanities as well! Most Malaysians will have some knowledge of swearing in English, Malay, Chinese and Tamil! This can be pretty useful when frustrations overseas make it necessary to swear without offending.
As much as it is offensive, profanity is a form of culture as well. And some learned people have devoted some time studying it. Found a pretty interesting website on Cantonese profanity which some may like to check out (after all don't most of you swear in Cantonese now and then??)... Have fun (but you need to be able to read Chinese)
廣州話粗口研究網
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