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What is your favorite insult in your native language that doesn't exist or cant be directly translated in English? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Ill start:

"Me cago en tus muertos" - ill shit all over your dead relatives. Spanish.

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[–] nekahat@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Not my native language but I don't think you can translate Québécois insults to any other language and still make sense:

TABARNAK! = Tabarnacle

CÂLICE!!! = Chalice

and many more

I reserve my right to dislike those guys but I respect that none of that stuff is sexist or racist.

Those in my native language are quite horrible and I won't list them here.

[–] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So you like the fact that the swearing is not racist in Quebec, but you "reserve the right " to be racist towards "those guys", Quebec, for yourself. Interesting take.

[–] ennemi@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

that person is an embarrassment. thinks it's OK to be a reactionary so long as you pick safe targets. block and move on

and hexbear mods this means you too. do better

[–] radisson@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

The beauty of these words is their compositionability(?). "Mon hostie de calice de tabarnak m'a t'en crissé une" is a great example of using these words as nouns, adjectives and verbs. They can even be adverbs (calice, calicer, calicement, criss, crisser, crissement, etc.)

On their own they're not really insult though.

Also disliking "those guys" as a generalised statement is a pretty racist statement, ironically.