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[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

Anyone who knows Japanese wanna weigh in?

I know maybe 3 dozen words in Japanese and the best I can do is "Nandemonaiya" which is something like "never mind" but could also maybe be used to say "forget about it". Japanese is a super polite language though, so "it doesn't matter" may be about as good as it gets? Also, Japanese tends to throw nouns out to mean a thing is like that noun, like you might call a homebody an "otaku" (house, as in they never leave it) (commonly used to refer to anime fans, as in they stay in all day watching anime) so maybe the word for "shit" or "garbage." Shit, as in just saying the curse (like "dammit") would be kuso (usually the vowels are silent, so it just sounds like "hiss" but with a K (but not "Kiss" if that makes any sense). But "kuso" is more like "dammit," like I said, I wouldn't use it to say I don't care, more that I'm annoyed and bothered.

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[-] tomatoely@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Spanish: It sucks me one ball

[-] fiat_lux@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Question: For the ones involving dicks and balls, do women typically also use these phrases? Is it one of those things that has just become somehow less-gendered over time despite the content?

[-] cabillaud@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

For French: no, a woman wouldn't use those expressions.

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[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I didn't realize the French were so... Raccoony

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

I'm reminded of a line I heard somewhere with a French guy with an accent saying "I spit in your face."

[-] nocturne@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

I fart in your general direction.

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