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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)

submitted 1 year ago by vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@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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[–] Nowyn@sopuli.xyz 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My personal favourites from Finnish.

"Ei ole kaikki muumit Muumilaaksossa" "Not having all the Moomins in Moomin Valley" Used for people who are either stupid or lack sanity. There are other variants of this and Moomin one is not older than a couple of decades.

I find our version of Grammar Nazi pretty great. We call them comma fuckers.

"Ei voi kauhalla ottaa jos on lusikalla annettu" "You can't take with a ladle if it was given with a spoon". This refers also to a lack of something, usually a lack of intelligence or sense.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Comma fuckers, lol. Do you guys say it in English or is there a Finnish version?

[–] Nowyn@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Finnish. Pilkunnussija is the word.

[–] IonAddis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I am having the incredible urge to name a space ship Pilkunnussija in one of my sci-fi stories now. "Ah, there goes the majestic Pilkunnussija, right into the worm hole..."

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Not having all the Moomins in Moomin Valley”

That's totally something we'll use. Thanks :D Also I'm stealing that. I'm stealing that insult and Americanizing it and you can't stop me

[–] Nowyn@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just be warned Moomins are a gateway to communism (Weird internet theory). Or at least to more Moomins. We literally have Moomin everything here.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Moomins are life though

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In Denmark you have:

Paragraph Knight - someone who cares too much about rules and regulations.
Fly Fucker - someone who cares too much about something deeply insignificant.

[–] neat_klingon@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

In German there is "Paragraphenreiter" - Paragraph rider.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We have "enculeur de mouches" in French, which translates to "fly ass-fucker" haha.

[–] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And the Dutch have mierenneuker, lit. ant fucker.