@vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • 2 years agoWhat is your favorite insult in your native language that doesn't exist or cant be directly translated in English?message-square139fedilinkarrow-up1245arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1236arrow-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 • 2 years agomessage-square139fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.calinkfedilink11•2 years ago“Enculeur de poules mortes” which basically means dead chicken fucker. It’s translatable but sounds so much better in french.
minus-square@13_random_letters@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•2 years agoI have never heard this in my life. Where are you from?
minus-square@UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.calinkfedilink1•2 years agoQuebec but it’s more of a closed circle thing.
minus-square@ilex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•edit-22 years agoEww, gross. spoiler Just kidding y’all :)
minus-square@triclops6@lemmy.calinkfedilink1•2 years 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?
Quebec but it’s more of a closed circle thing.
Probably Quebec or Montreal.
Eww, gross.
spoiler
Just kidding y’all :)
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