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What's your favourite non-English cuss word?
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Scheisse
Shiddee.. Schois/schoas.
Aaah die dialektik
In Italian we have a category of curse words called "bestemmie" which they are actually illegal to say because they're an insult to God or the religion in general.
Some of my favourite ones are "Dio cane" (god is a dog), "Dio merda" (god is a shit), "Dio boia" (god is an executioner).
I work in an Italian kitchen. Frustration is pretty common among the chefs, but when I hear a porco dio flying around I know they're pissed off as fuck
Hodenkobold (Testicle Goblin)
Kacklappen (Shit rag)
Pimmelnase (Cock-for-a-nose)
Andi du bist 1 pimmel
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Finnish swears are pretty fun but my favorite is perkele
Perkele is the best but the one I use most often is vittu.
And when you really need to drive the point home, the holy trinity is of course vittu saatana perkele
Ever since i played "my summer car", this is my go to
As the other commenter said, vittu is the most common one but I really also like jumalauta, which is like "my fucking god"
Also some more interesting common phrase is "voi vittujen kevät ja kyrpien takatalvi", literally translates to "spring of cunts and blackberry winter of dicks"
Also some more interesting common phrase is "voi vittujen kevät ja kyrpien takatalvi", literally translates to "spring of cunts and blackberry winter of dicks"
As a Canadian, this is the phrase I was looking for when I saw snow sticking on the ground after a nice warm period in the last couple of days. It's perfect and I love it.
so what's the cultural significance of a "blackberry winter"? does that mean like it's abundant with something?
Cultural significance is probably just the fact that Finland is north and cold, it's often joked that the summer is short and with little snow. I can't really explain it, but the word "takatalvi" feels extremely Finnish in every way, the meaning, the fact that there's a dedicated single word for the phenomenon, and also just the feeling of that word in your mouth
HURENSOHN!
I'm Spanish. I'm partial to "puta madre".
Como la puta madre - like a motherfucker
Está de puta madre - fucking amazing
Hijo de tu puta madre - son of a fucking bitch
Merde! Putana!
Merde especially because of use by a fictional medieval vampire jumping a moat on a motorbike
Kurva/kurwa always sounds fun to say to me
Fun fact: I studied a bit of Polish, and I would keep getting Spanish ads on my language learning app that would say "curva" (sounds like "kurwa"). Made me laugh.
Klootviool (bullock violin)
Teringlijer ( sufferer of typhoid)
Zakkenwasser (scrotum cleaner)
I love all dutch swearing, as a microbiologist there is something particularly satisfying being able to tell somebody to 'krijg de tyfus' or to call somebody a 'pleurislijer'
Yeah the disease thing is weird and wild.
It's interesting which diseases are ok to swear with and not.
Typhoid and cancer are ok, but cerebral palsy or aids aren't.
Cancer is very much a controversial one depending on who you're with
jævlig, jævel, and jævla in norwegian are quite versatile. i am learning it as it's the language of my ancestors and my dad raised me learning it, but sadly, i only learned basic norwegian thru youtube videos he showed me and i'm the only one actively (though on-and-off) learning it. jævlig is like "terrible" but it means "devilish", but you can also say something is "jævlig god" which is like "fucking good".
jævel is a noun, so "en rik jævel" is a "rich fuck". this might be useful for my friend who says stuff like "the horny fuck" or «den kåte jævelen». so it's like "the fuck" (noun) or "fucker".
jævla is like fucking, for example, «ei jævla tispe» is a fucking bitch, or you could say «en jævla tispe», i've heard both. "the fucking bitch" is either «den jævla tispen» or maybe «den jævla tispa», but im still learning.
Hundagrübbal sakazement no' mol!
A classic, the French merde.
It is quite satisfying to say it just out of exhaustion
Chinga - I think it means fuck in Spanish Mexican.
Kurwa
су́ка блять
Cazzo is the one that feels the most fun for me after Fuck.
Vaffancoulo is a good one too
Cantonese:
黐線 (pronounced like: Chi Sin) Used in place of like "idiot" but has the same weight as the R-Word in some contexts
仆街 (pronounced like: Puk Gaai) Probably similar to "dickhead" I think
Mandarin:
神經病，有毛病 (Idk where I heard this from... think I might heard it drom 1st or 2nd grade... a combo phrase combining 2 terms lol)
Behenchod (sister fucker), madarchod (mother fucker), chutiya (roughly translates to stupid/dumb).
Bhosdike
Malaka.
你老母大減價!
Machikne! - motherfucker in Nepali, very satisfying
Pendejo
"Kruzifixdeifelscheissdreck"
It has the benefit of going on for a while so you can either calm down or just keep going...
"Kruzifixdeifelscheissdreckfotzenbeidelfutoaschsau..."
It's limitless, but may lead to a bit of repetitive parts. Usually private ones.
Aaah ich sehe. Ein Süddeutscher
"chingadera": figuratively, 'thingsmajig' or 'doohickey', literally 'fuckerator'
"mamadas": figuratively, 'bullshit' or 'makework' or 'flattery', literally 'blowjobs'
Words cannot express how much I want there to be a JCW wrestler named "Los Chingadera" now.
Chingadera is mostly used to express fustration at something that doesn't work right. It's akin to saying something is a "piece of junk" or when a situation is fucked up, etc.
thingamajig would be "chingaderita" diminutive of chingadera.
Something or someone cool is refered to as "Chingón" or ”Chingona" a wrestler could be named "el chingón" but it's too broad and over used, kind of lacks personal character.
Edited to add:/the meaning of being chingón /a is to be really good at something, not only cool.
...you know, reading this and thinking about what the JCW is (Juggalo Championship Wrestling), I still think 'Los Chingadera' (or El Chingadera, my Spanish is non-existant) works.
That aside I appreciate these extra details! Seriously, ty.
Looking into it, yeah our hypothetical wrestler could be "El Chingaderas" a trickster type, who always comes up with some bullshit.
No problem! the word chingar is so versatile, I enjoy over explaining it. ;)
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