The Local's French grammar tips. Image: Patick Fore_Meizhi Lang via Unsplash Of all the rich and varied parts of the French language, it is perhaps swearing that poses the biggest translation problem.

What's in a swear? The world's filthiest words typically refer to something vulgar or taboo, for one. But there's something else swears across the world's languages have in common. They're all missing ...

Pierre-Yves Modicom has received funding from the Université Bordeaux-Montaigne. Thanks are due to S. for her useful comments during and before the writing of this article. When French president ...