Sorry was busy to satisfy my dude and yes I enjoy it too LOL
Alright first I should say thanks to hawtsean for entertaining the thread for me... HS you're the best :cheers: but let us start with a little history about French Canadian history first before I start posting some more specifics learning.
As hawtsean said Quebec's swear words are mostly related to roman catholic church words and there's a reason for that and in sociology we call it traditional versus contemporary society: well here's the low down on that... the people of Quebec were traditional while the rest of Canada was moving on a more contemporary society:
The swear words originated in the early 19th century in a time when the social control exerted by the Catholic clergy was increasingly a source of frustration. One of the oldest profanity is
"sacrament", which can be thought of in Quebec French as equivalent to "goddamn it" in English. It was in use as far back as the 1830s as far as is known. The word "sacrer" in its current meaning is believed to come from the expression
Ne dites pas ça, c'est sacré. ("Don't say that, it is sacred/holy"). Eventually,
sacrer started to refer to the words francophone Québécois were not supposed to say. This is more than probably related to the commandment: "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain" (Exodus 20:7). The influence and social importance of the Catholic religion at that time allowed
sacres to become powerful forms of profanity.
As a result of the Quiet Revolution in the 1960s, the influence of the Roman Catholic Church in Quebec has declined. This has had no effect, however, on the use of
sacres, which is as widespread as ever.
Of course you don't know my last name and I'm not telling you LOL. But I was raised in a very catholic family both of my last names are extremely historic and they are going back as far as Louis XXII king of the Franks (Saint Louis). We are (our family) direct cousin of the king of France of the bourbon and Capetian dynasties, so yes if monarchy was still up in France I'd be ROYAL blood (by adoption that is in my case)
, thus inbreed hahahahaha!
So to continue on the history, in Quebec everything was sacred, family, businesses and well pretty much everything, if you ever go in Quebec you'll find the most amazing churches and cathedrals in North America, there is a church in every villages you go to and lots of cities and twonships are referring to saint patrons such as: St-Michel des Saint, Saint Leonard, Sainte Elisabeth, Sainte Germaine, Saint Laurent, therefore you understand that Quebec was a very catholic and traditional society.
However during the Quiet Revolution in 1960, people started rebelling against the power of the clergy; with some good reasons, clergy was over controlling birth control, businesses, well everything. My dad is number 13 of a family of 18, my mom is number 4 of a family of 9 and all this was the works of the clergy which was forcing woman to have children over their capacities. How many men lost their loving wives during child delivery because a excessive priest with taste for power didn't care of the woman's anatomy, even if they new they couldn't bear more children they would force her and her husband to conceive children knowing that the mother may die of it (and it happened a lot).
They didn't care, they were just applying god's law (which I didn't find in the bible that a woman should die conceiving over her limits), therefore husband started loathing the clergy system and that's how the first Quebec swear word happened, they were liberally challenging the priest of their denomination by starting to profane the symbols of roman catholic church by using swear word to voice their unhappiness with the controlling system of the time... first was to attack the most holy of them all which was "sacrament".
The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines the sacraments as "efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us. The visible rites by which the sacraments are celebrated signify and make present the graces proper to each sacrament.
The church tried to come back with those who were using this word in vain, but have been unsuccessful since their control was waning of as of more words from the church were starting to come out. It is also to understand that back then People were still believers, therefore words such as "Calis" which is the cup that Jesus drank in the last scene became "colis", Tabarnac refers to "mount tabernacle". So they would alter the words in order for them to annoys the priest as the words where similar to church words, but yet not the official words. :cheers:
Now you know
