Speaking of cursing, and Fenarian/Hungarian, there's this page on Serbian, which digresses onto Hungarian. http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002157.php This bit I thought particularly amusing: [Begin Cite] On a tangent, a Hungarian friend of mine who is a history teacher once told me that the earliest record of the Hungarian language is not, in fact, the list of land owners' names contained in the "Tihany Abbey Document" dating from the 11th century. Apparently a Byzantine source from 200 years earlier mentions an emabssy from Constantinople meeting a group of pre-Pannonian Magyars (referred to at the time as "Turkoi" in Byzantine sources) which says that these Turkoi spoke 'Turkoi' as well as their own special language. This language was unintelligible to the other "Turkoi" and the one most common expression was recorded as "Bazamak!" Which is considerably close to the most common Hungarian swear word "bazd/bassza meg!" (Fuck it/you" (Literally "Befucked!" in an Old English fashion...) [End Cite]