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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)

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Ill start:

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

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[-] SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago

We have curse stacking so it forms one big word. Godverdommemiljaardenondju. It's an ugly mix of dialect, French and Dutch, meaning something like "curse you a billion times in the name of God". And if it's only a mild inconvenience we only use a small part, like "dju" or "miljaar."

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