Very pleased to go over this again.   Any time.

 

Tabernac is basically a tabernacle in a church.   Nothing so shocking right?

 

but.....

 

All really bad swearwords in french are blasphemous - anything to do with the church:

 

Tabernac - which you now already know

Calisse  (slum spelling) - the Chalice

Hostie - the Host

Maudit - Damned

Christ -  duh!

 

etc., etc.

 

Tabernouche is what ppl will say instead of the way worse Tabernac --  the equivalent of Cripes instead of Christ, or Shoot instead of Shit...

 

Tabernac can be used in many ways....

 

Ce twinkie est bon en tabernac

This twinkie is tabernacally good

 

Hey!  Tabernac!!!  Qu'est ce que tu fait avec mon twinkie

Hey! Tabernacle (or "shit", or whatever)!!!   What are you doing with my twinkie?

 

Redonne-moi mon twinkie, mon Hostie de Calisse de Tabernac!!

Give me back my twinkie you little host of a chalice of a tabernacle!!!

 

 

So basically it's just a godly word gone bad.  9,999,999 times out of 10,000,000.

 

English uses bodily functions, French uses blasphemy.

 

(love these questions the most, btw!)

 

If I can help any more, just ask.

 

Oooooh.   I just thought of another one.

 

Sacrement!     The lesser version being Sacrebleu - or Sacred Blue.

 

Funny what we do to protect our ears from swearing, n'est pas??

 

I loved your examples by the way....."

Give me back my twinkie you little host of a chalice of a tabernacle!!!

 

 

 

A "twinkie" is whatever you want it to be, Simply!    Whatever you want it to be!

 

Tho it's most often a little packaged cake.    (and for all its popularity, I don't think I've ever had one.     I just really like the name)

 

I know that this all sounds passive enough - but you have to believe me that if someone strung the words together like that they were doing so with extreme malice. 

 

Which has me wondering.....

 

Simply!   Lynnie!   You both also live in a latin language.   Does spanish have the equivalent?   

yep

 

Moses is used quite often as the more acceptable replacement for Maudit.

 

So you might hear  "Moses, qu'il fait chaud!!!"  (Moses, it's hot out!) rather than Damn it's hot.

 

Still swearing tho....     just not nearly as bad.

 

Christ is a WAY bad though!      You really have to know your bible to avoid trouble around here.

K.

 

I just came back from Facebook, where I saw that my daughter's status was (in french) that she was "Feeling Pretty Nouche".    I looked up and scanned her over, but couldn't tell what that meant just by looking at her, so I had to ask...

 

Apparently she and a bud made up the word a couple of days ago when they were hanging out.   The Jammer had blurted out "Tabernouche" much to everyone's glee  (teenagers don't usually tone it down like that when amongst themselves with no adult supervision, ya know...)- and she turned around and said to her bud that she was feeling pretty Nouche about it all.

 

I'm guessing that Nouche is kinda layed back and humerous, whereas Nack would be more uptight about it all.

 

...just another one of those priceless moments started by the words Tabernac and Tabernouche.      Such fun!

 

Funner still is actually having a place where relating the story is relevant!   How cool is that?