Though I am a native German, I've lived here in the U.S. long enough to have switched to U.S. English for emotional outbursts.

Fact is, I really never learned to curse in German, despite the fact I spent a number of years in Germany while serving out my military duty some 40 years ago.

The one thing I did learn about emotional outbursts, was that the German ones don't always translate into anything particularly impolite in English, and the American ones don't easily translate into anything of which a German could make much sense.

The American curses all seem to have Russian equivalents, though. I don't know what that tells us, but it surely tells us loudly and clearly!

Germans, and, probably French and Italian all seem to incorporate a mode of speech that the Germans call Schimpfen. This seems to be a way of "giving someone a piece of our minds" without becoming vulgar.

It's a skill that should probably developed among English speakers.

RE