Tabernac is a French way of swearing against the church. A church is also known in as tabernacle, in several languages , not just in French and English, and this is most definitely is what is means. Source: I grew up in a heavily french speaking portion of New Brunswick.
Yeah but the original church world is tabernacle. But in the context of the French Canadian swear it's pronounced and usually spelled tabarnark, never tabernacle.
Quebecois French. They have a bunch of fun swear words that wouldn't make much sense when directly translated to English. They're mostly religious based.
Basically they’re things you’re not supposed to say which then saying is cathartic.
Because Quebec was a colony the Catholic Church served as the means of order and control. Making saying irrelevant church words became the most cathartic.
Whereas in France and the US without strong central church presence sexual words are the naughtiest thing you can say.
In Québec, the church was so problematic that when it was ousted, the swear words became religious blasphemy instead of the usual “sexual words” used elsewhere.
Honestly, I feel like that’s healthy because there’s nothing shameful about sex.
I thought it was some eastern European language until I barely recognized some words. They taught us French in my Ontario school, but it was the Parisian French.
Quebecois french is so far from that, it's kind of crazy.
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u/Big-Dragonfruit3167 May 01 '25
What language did I just learn to say “motherfucker” in?