ISO innocent expletives

[David Kaiser]

I seem to remember hearing "blin" and "xren" when people wished to curse
without being nasty.

DK


At 11:20 PM 2/22/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi all - I need some equivalents of "darn it!" or "shoot!" in various
>languages.  I have "zut!" in French, "mist!" in German.  The Russian ones I
>know are not so innocent and I can't recall the mild ones.  I could use a
>Spanish and Italian one.  Japanese or Latin (??) would be fun as well.
>Please email them directly to me at this address:  dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu
>
>Thanks!
>
>Devin
>
>Devin P Browne
>dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu
>
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