Semi serious question, (please do not ask "AI") I can do web searches just fine so please answer from your own experience:

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@GoblinQuester @Sharonybaloney when you say "jailbirds" in quotes, what do you mean? Not arguing, just curious.

[goblinquester@dice.camp]

@afreytes @Sharonybaloney Criminals that was going in and out of a local jail in Stockholm. Small times career criminals that frequented that institution often.

[midnakrystal@sadbitches.online]

@afreytes
in japanese you can use the word crap in a very disrespectful way, but you can also use the same word with your teacher. It's all about context.

semi-related, but I've noticed that English swears follow similar sounds. they usually have either deep 'uh' sounds, sharp 'ih' sounds, or some kind of 'aa' sound.

[tedel@writing.exchange]

@afreytes In Spanish, there are many words that are considered rude and should not be used in polite conversation, but people do not refrain about using them when they want to use them like I've noticed Americans do when they say 'f-ing instead of... well, you know. They are not four-letter words either.

In some circles there are specific words that other groups not use, but I am guessing that's universal.

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tedel thanks, but the question is NOT about offensive words.

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@midnakrystal Thanks, but the question is NOT about offensive words per se, but about groups of words... Groups hopefully being more than two.

[midnakrystal@sadbitches.online]

@afreytes
my bad lol i am terrible at reading aha

[franceskamann@freeradical.zone]

@hakona @afreytes

Power expressions. I like that!

[franceskamann@freeradical.zone]

@afreytes

Someone once pointed out my use of " the isms" as in racism, sexism, theism, etc.

[gbargoud@masto.nyc]

@afreytes

Tugging on the teenager thread, I found out that the Polish equivalent is 11-19 and the Hungarian one is 10-19 because of the way the words for those numbers are formed.

[slothrop@chaos.social]

@lukyan @afreytes hah, the same thing exists in German („vier Buchstaben“)

[rhelune@todon.eu]

@CorvidCrone @afreytes Some call it legalese.

I've also heard of "psychobabble" and lately of therapy speak, especially in the context of weaponising it.

Also technobabble.

But all of them in English.

[drsaucy@sfba.social]

@afreytes I'm not sure this fits the bill, but your query made me think of reduplicatives in Tagolog, which indicate emphasis, intensity, speed, etc. For example, mabilis-mabilis (fast becomes very fast), araw-araw (day becomes every day), ganda-ganda (beauty to most beautiful).

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@DrSaucy oh I think Hawaiian also has this? The wiki in wikipedia I think means fast but wiki-wiki means faster IIRC...

Yes I like3 this... I didnt know reduplicatives is the word for it. Thanks!

[drsaucy@sfba.social]

@afreytes I immediately thought of wikiwiki after I posted, but awaited your reply in case my example wasn't relevant to your request.

Other Hawaiian reduplicatives of which I'm aware, but quite likely lost in Hawaiian to Haole: holoholo (from stroll/amble to run around), mahimahi (strong to brute strength) makemake (like to desire).

[fgbjr@indieweb.social]

@oheso @afreytes At a faculty dinner, back when I was still working full time, the restaurant was tatami style, and at the shoe lockers I put mine in number "42," as I generally do when it's available. A European colleague much more obsessive about appearances and local trivia than I was looked on, scowled, and said, "That's a bad one: SHI [written as 四 for 'four' or as 死 for 'death'] NI [二 for 'two' or the particle に meaning roughly 'to' or 'toward' or 'at']."

This is an example of 余計なお世話.

[fgbjr@indieweb.social]

@oheso @afreytes It's effectively the same answer with the humor removed from it. (And I hasten to add that the offending European was not from Germany!)

[adriano@lile.cl]

@blogdiva @afreytes On the other hand, “anglicismos” (English loanwords adapted to Spanish) and all the -ismos that describe Spanish variants like Argentinismo, Chilenismo, etc. could be “groups of words outside the standard rules of syntax”.

[thierry@twit.social]

@afreytes In French Canada (at least in the province of Québec) we have “mots d’église" (ie: church words). Basically swear words, often with adjusted spellings (ex: tabernacle = tabarnak!). They can be combined for effect.

Québec used to be a very religious place…

You’ll mostly hear such swears around you except for the occasional “marde” in combination with a church word or “merde” if not.

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@thierry oh my! This made e remember in Puerto Rico we have "palabras de Domingo" i.e. "Sunday Words" which is almost like saying church words! And "palabras de Domingo" are multi-sillabic very long words which would usually be used by more well read people, often in church.

Thank you! I love that!