Showing posts with label fighting words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fighting words. Show all posts

Saturday, 26 January 2013

Guaranteed fighting words- two words you will never read in a romance novel


      There are two words in most cultures that will make a person forget that he or she is a pacifist at heart and instead want to rip someone’s tongue out of their mouth. These have been the ultimate fighting words since I can remember and I can’t imagine that it will change any time soon.

      I have never encountered these words in a romance novel during a couple’s argument, but I’m sure that if they were uttered the romance novel would end abruptly and it would be changed to ‘chick lit’ because there would be no happy romantic ending.
     What are these two words you ask with impatience? The two most insulting words in all of history are:
                Your Mother (Enlish)
                Yo Mama   (Slang)
                Su Mama   (Spanish)
               Wo Mama (Twi)
     I can see people nodding their heads as they read. No other words need to be added to make the insult worse. We all love our mother’s so much that any insult against her is like a quadruple insult against us because she is where we came from.
    Notice that we never use ‘Your Daddy’ as an insult. It’s just not the same.
Am I wrong? Is there an insult that is greater than ‘Your mother?’
Let me know by  leaving a comment, I love to read what people think, but please keep it clean.