I posted this from here to eternity... if you, too, can help, please do!  luff!!

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‘Sup all y’all fellow philes!  The name’s Cody (long-time lurker, 2^nd or 3^rd time poster) and I’m a-needin’ some serious help.  Currently, I got in the works a conventional style academic project on an unconventional subject: how modern vulgarities/impolite expressions are written in older, traditional Asian symbols.   

(If that doesn’t make sense, the English equivalent might be doing research on the f-word, its various grammatical forms, usages, foreign cognates, and contending theories related to its historical origin…. See wikipedia for a fascinating distraction!)

Anyway, in a perfect world, I’d like to build a list of mainly CHINESE and JAPANESE

-slang

-profanity

-curses, epithets

-racial/sexist slurs

-Subculture or minority group expressions

-criminal and drug lingo

-descriptions of socially taboo behavior

-inappropriate synonyms for body parts, bodily functions, sexual acts etc…

***But MORE importantly, I need to know the Mandarin/Cantonese characters or Japanese kanji (and maybe, to a lesser extent, the hiragana and katakana). 

Any help would be appreciated: whether that be recommendations for websites, dictionaries, conversation books (i.e. the “Making Out In--” series), other blogs/online journals… or even just a lil’ comment here or in my personal journal… like something you once heard slung in a bar brawl, or whispered into your ear by a dirty-talkin’ one-night stand.

Once again, this IS for a serious project, and I thank you for any advice.  Cheerios, ladies n’ gents, and sorry for gratuitous cross-posting.

cody