vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoWhat is your favorite insult in your native language that doesn't exist or cant be directly translated in English?message-squaremessage-square335fedilinkarrow-up1484arrow-down112file-text
arrow-up1472arrow-down1message-squareWhat is your favorite insult in your native language that doesn't exist or cant be directly translated in English?vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square335fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareUnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up17·1 year ago“Enculeur de poules mortes” which basically means dead chicken fucker. It’s translatable but sounds so much better in french.
minus-squareanswer42@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoI knew about “enculeurs de mouches”, or fly fucker, that is said about a person that is way too picky about useless details
minus-squareAkasazh@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoIn Dutch that would be called an ant fucker (mierenneuker)
minus-squareIron Lynx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoA few years ago, when #MeToo was a big thing, I took a photo of an ant, and slapped the text #MierToo, specifically to mock and send to mierrenneukers
minus-square13_random_letters@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoI have never heard this in my life. Where are you from?
minus-squareUnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoQuebec but it’s more of a closed circle thing.
minus-squareilex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoEww, gross. spoiler Just kidding y’all :)
minus-squarefolkrav@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoI’m from Quebec, never heard that one lol
minus-squaretriclops6@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoSomething about how fancy French sounds, juxtaposed with how vulgar the insult is, that makes it stick. Like a guy in a tuxedo, but with his junk out In English it’s more like a guy at Walmart in sweatpants with his junk out; not that shocking
“Enculeur de poules mortes” which basically means dead chicken fucker. It’s translatable but sounds so much better in french.
I knew about “enculeurs de mouches”, or fly fucker, that is said about a person that is way too picky about useless details
In Dutch that would be called an ant fucker (mierenneuker)
A few years ago, when #MeToo was a big thing, I took a photo of an ant, and slapped the text #MierToo, specifically to mock and send to mierrenneukers
I have never heard this in my life. Where are you from?
Quebec but it’s more of a closed circle thing.
Probably Quebec or Montreal.
Eww, gross.
spoiler
Just kidding y’all :)
I’m from Quebec, never heard that one lol
Something about how fancy French sounds, juxtaposed with how vulgar the insult is, that makes it stick.
Like a guy in a tuxedo, but with his junk out
In English it’s more like a guy at Walmart in sweatpants with his junk out; not that shocking