Show STRANGE WAY OF SWEARING A strange way of cussing is is that of the Corean His ordinary swear word wordis is or or You brute The Japanese have tho same samo p partiality for this term of endearment But Dut according according accord accord- ing to the tho Oriental Economic Review the Corean considers himself especially especially espe espe- abusive when he e calls a person his child or grandchild When he wants to call caIl somebody down the tho Corean demands hotly Are you not my child And the angry retort is What I your child child- 1 You are my grandchild Then the first goes a d step further and cries You are a grandchild of ot my grandchild to which the rejoinder rejoinder rejoinder re re- re- re joinder is You conceited fellow have you forgotten that you are are area a grandchild of a grandchild of my grandchild When their vituperation reaches Its climax the people or ot Chosen at last come to the occidental standard of exclaiming You grandchild of a dog |