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-square301fedilinkarrow-up1310arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up1303arrow-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-square301fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareUnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year ago“Enculeur de poules mortes” which basically means dead chicken fucker. It’s translatable but sounds so much better in french.
minus-squaretriclops6@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 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
minus-square13_random_letters@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI have never heard this in my life. Where are you from?
minus-squareilex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoEww, gross. spoiler Just kidding y’all :)
minus-squareanswer42@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 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-up1·1 year agoIn Dutch that would be called an ant fucker (mierenneuker)
minus-squareIron Lynx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 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
“Enculeur de poules mortes” which basically means dead chicken fucker. It’s translatable but sounds so much better in french.
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
I have never heard this in my life. Where are you from?
Probably Quebec or Montreal.
Eww, gross.
spoiler
Just kidding y’all :)
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