Look at that, Oida

F***! How you fucking rant properly

"I'll flatten you like a kebab!" Linguist Dr. Oksana Havryliv knows why we swear and how we like it best.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/stock.adobe.com, NDR/Uwe Ernst)

Go lick yourself! Have you already cursed, cursed, cursed today? No? You never swear? Well, we dare to doubt that. Because there's a lot more to swearing than meets the eye. In the course of the ÖAW project FÄKT!, swear word expert Oksana Havryliv from the University of Vienna explains to us what exactly, why we cuss at all and how best to do it.

At this point, we must warn you, dear readers: In the interests of comprehensibility and due to the topic of the story, we have deliberately refrained from replacing swear words with asterisks below. So if you read on, you should expect to come across a few more "tender" terms - so it's not for sissies!