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What is the most frequent expletive in the world?

Although Mandarin Chinese is the language with the most speakers, they, like Asians in general, are more modest and modest than Westerners for profanity.

For this reason, it can be said that the English exclamation fuck !, equivalent in Castilian to fuck, is the taco that is heard the most times every day in the world.

Even in the movies , the famous expletive is sweeping: it is uttered 422 times in Martin Scorsese's Casino and 265 in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.

Other very repeated vituperations in English are shit – shit, in Spanish – or bastard, which does not need translation.

In all languages, the tacos consist of eschatological expressions, allusions to the genital apparatus of both sexes, to the family of the insulted person or to the divinity on duty –blasphemies–. In the top ten filthy Spanish are pussy, son of a bitch, bastard and Fuck it! Mandarin's favorite swear word is huaidan – something like "by the c …"; in Cantonese, diu – "que te fo …"; in French, merde and with –asshole–; and in Italian, puttana and cazzo –the virile member–.

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