vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 11 months agoWhat is your favorite insult in your native language that doesn't exist or cant be directly translated in English?message-squaremessage-square128fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-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 · 11 months agomessage-square128fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareUnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months ago“Enculeur de poules mortes” which basically means dead chicken fucker. It’s translatable but sounds so much better in french.
minus-square13_random_letters@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoI have never heard this in my life. Where are you from?
minus-squareilex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-210 months agoEww, gross. spoiler Just kidding y’all :)
minus-squareanswer42@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months 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-up1·10 months agoIn Dutch that would be called an ant fucker (mierenneuker)
minus-squareIron Lynx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months 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-squaretriclops6@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months 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 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
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