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Cursing in non-English
It's a holiday week and I'm stuck inside because it's been raining for 5 hours. I'm actually starting to scope out trees for my own personal ark. This is sunny California?
Anyway, after a week of watching a bunch of foreign (non-english) movies (love that NetFlix!) my gf and I realized that our cursing is sorely restricted to the same old boring english words and phrases. We need more variety in our cursing. Not necessarily at each other mind you, but in traffic or for dumb people in stores and such...
I was thinking that if we used some discretion and tact that this thread wouldn't immediately be targeted for lockination. Moderators? Is that possible with a few well place asterisks? So in the spirit of education and not aggression we could all learn something together. That's noble isn't it?
And yes, I have lowered the bar on my upcoming New Year's Resolutions. But I think this may be more achievable than that first million, destroying the RIAA, convincing anybody in the Political Lounge to change their mind, or organizing my life with Applescript.
We have such an geographically diverse and eclectic, multi-lingual bunch of people on this board we're bound to come up with some doozies. We all know the basic english stuff - sh*t, p*ss, f**k, and d*mn. I used to know a few phrases in italian but I've forgotten them due to lack of use. Phonetic spelling would help if you can add it also.
Anyway, after a week of watching a bunch of foreign (non-english) movies (love that NetFlix!) my gf and I realized that our cursing is sorely restricted to the same old boring english words and phrases. We need more variety in our cursing. Not necessarily at each other mind you, but in traffic or for dumb people in stores and such...
I was thinking that if we used some discretion and tact that this thread wouldn't immediately be targeted for lockination. Moderators? Is that possible with a few well place asterisks? So in the spirit of education and not aggression we could all learn something together. That's noble isn't it?
And yes, I have lowered the bar on my upcoming New Year's Resolutions. But I think this may be more achievable than that first million, destroying the RIAA, convincing anybody in the Political Lounge to change their mind, or organizing my life with Applescript.
We have such an geographically diverse and eclectic, multi-lingual bunch of people on this board we're bound to come up with some doozies. We all know the basic english stuff - sh*t, p*ss, f**k, and d*mn. I used to know a few phrases in italian but I've forgotten them due to lack of use. Phonetic spelling would help if you can add it also.
I still perfer the English cursing. If I'm cursing at someone, it's for a reason, and they had better be able to understand the reason.
(Shut the **** up *******!, Use your ******* turn signal!, GOD $%#& WHY WON'T YOU JUST LEAVE ME THE &@#% ALONE YOU $#@%-@#$%&$ #$@%@!, ect...)
(Shut the **** up *******!, Use your ******* turn signal!, GOD $%#& WHY WON'T YOU JUST LEAVE ME THE &@#% ALONE YOU $#@%-@#$%&$ #$@%@!, ect...)
Aaah! cursing! Hmmmmmm 
I advise you to study Dutch then! The language with the most elaborate curses in existence! Apart from the all the minor stuff you all have known to use and love, in Dutch you can cursize virtually every disease in the world!!! A tiny example?
vuile pleurisleier! smerige tyfushond! gore kankermongool! schurftige stoephoer!
Ahem...
(never imagined using this in an English forum)
Anyways, these thing dont translate easy to english. while most of you will be able to recognise the used conditions, translating this would be quite akward: "schurfige stoephoer" designates a "cheap whore with scabies" (well not quite, but close)
Ah, dutch swearwords! i could get all lyrical about them... (sigh)
[edit: check out this site, or just google on "scheldwoorden" (which is dutch for "swearwords")]
I advise you to study Dutch then! The language with the most elaborate curses in existence! Apart from the all the minor stuff you all have known to use and love, in Dutch you can cursize virtually every disease in the world!!! A tiny example?
vuile pleurisleier! smerige tyfushond! gore kankermongool! schurftige stoephoer!
Ahem...
(never imagined using this in an English forum)Anyways, these thing dont translate easy to english. while most of you will be able to recognise the used conditions, translating this would be quite akward: "schurfige stoephoer" designates a "cheap whore with scabies" (well not quite, but close)
Ah, dutch swearwords! i could get all lyrical about them... (sigh)
[edit: check out this site, or just google on "scheldwoorden" (which is dutch for "swearwords")]
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Originally posted by ambush: some Qu�b�cois exclusives Caliss Tabarnak Siboire Sacrament Simonac Estie <--- my favourite (means "damn" but.. more "violent") "Caliss de cave" is something similar to "****ing moron" |
Yes, you have to love the wonderful religious expletives that come out of a Quebecois' mouth. My wife can curse a blue streak and my father-in-law is a champion.
The Quebecois will also string the names of saints together in rapid-fire sequence just to make a point.
The French, on the other hand, are more scatological and sexual in their choice of cursing. Some popular French curse words:
* Putain
* Merde
* Salope
* Foutre (sp?)
* Enculer
Etc., etc., etc. And again, they can be strung together for wonderful dramatic effect.
My Spanish vocabulary consists mostly of words and phrases that would get my @ss kicked in any Latino neighborhood. This is thanks to an exchange student from Puerto Rico who was in my senior year high school class.
F'rinstance:
M@ric�n
Hijo de la gr@n put@
Ching@ tu madre!
My own heritage is Finnish, but I don't have a very broad cursing vocabulary in it. I do remember one of my grandma's favorite comments, Paska housut. It translates as "s h i t in your pants."
F'rinstance:
M@ric�n
Hijo de la gr@n put@
Ching@ tu madre!
My own heritage is Finnish, but I don't have a very broad cursing vocabulary in it. I do remember one of my grandma's favorite comments, Paska housut. It translates as "s h i t in your pants."
What do I say?
Va te faire enculer - a basic fnck off
Putain de merde! - kinda like godammit
Pauv' con - Sad fncker
Otherwise I love Italian-it just rolls off the tongue.
Va vaffanculo, va caccare, coglione, stronzo, minchione, cretino, porca putana..etc
One of my favorites has always been
Ma chi ti conosce? - Who knows you? (shut up, go away..)
Va te faire enculer - a basic fnck off
Putain de merde! - kinda like godammit
Pauv' con - Sad fncker
Otherwise I love Italian-it just rolls off the tongue.
Va vaffanculo, va caccare, coglione, stronzo, minchione, cretino, porca putana..etc
One of my favorites has always been
Ma chi ti conosce? - Who knows you? (shut up, go away..)
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Originally posted by gerbnl: Aaah! cursing! Hmmmmmm I advise you to study Dutch then! The language with the most elaborate curses in existence! Apart from the all the minor stuff you all have known to use and love, in Dutch you can cursize virtually every disease in the world!!! A tiny example? vuile pleurisleier! smerige tyfushond! gore kankermongool! schurftige stoephoer! Ahem... (never imagined using this in an English forum)Anyways, these thing dont translate easy to english. while most of you will be able to recognise the used conditions, translating this would be quite akward: "schurfige stoephoer" designates a "cheap whore with scabies" (well not quite, but close) Ah, dutch swearwords! i could get all lyrical about them... (sigh) [edit: check out this site, or just google on "scheldwoorden" (which is dutch for "swearwords")] |
Anyway I mostly use the french swearing since I'm half french.
Putain
Merde
Salope
Connard, conasse
* va te faire foutre (don't know the exact spelling either, I can't write properly
) means **** offthese come to mind
oh yeah, and "enculer" basically mean getting (giving) it up the ass
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Originally posted by Powaqqatsi: oh yeah, and "enculer" basically mean getting (giving) it up the ass |
ok another example:
enculer / giving it up the ass:
reetkever, darmtourist, bruinwerker, bruinridder, kontridder, reetneuker, konteklimmer, kontebonker, baggeraar, chocodipper, strontridder, endeldarmtourist...
ach! it's useless, this without using any of the sites one could google-up. If i were to use them i could easily triple or quadruple the list.
note however that these variants don't even include the use of any diseases (which is frowned upon, but widespread) and show a second source of swearwords i didn't mention in my first post: ordinary terms/names, but used in a derogatory context/way . This could be a rich source for english cursing, i figure.
how about "colonaut"? combining colon and astronaut! it's short and snappy�, quite usable to curse!
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Originally posted by WinsOBoogi: However, my favorite, of all time, is the greek word for a-hole: "MALAKA" Use it as this: "Is this malaka serious?" Or.. "hey..malaka!" - Brad |
You sure? i was told it stands for 'scrotum'. anyways: an excellent choice! malaka would make one fine curse in english (or in any other language)
Word of advise to backpackers 'doing europe': do NOT try this word when in greece, they often take it quite seriously.
while typing two more potential words: scrotum and backpackers.
last but not least, here's a quick "+1" to mark my 500 post...
Mandarin (more commonly used in Taiwan, but they'll get the idea): gah nee nahyon (roughly, doing something Oedipal with your mother)
Malay: celakok (roughly, "bitch"... that's a "ch"-sounding c) -- balek kampung (return to your village... calling someone a peasant, essentially) -- bodoh dan hodoh (stupid and ugly)
Spanish: hijo de puta (son of a whore)
Malay: celakok (roughly, "bitch"... that's a "ch"-sounding c) -- balek kampung (return to your village... calling someone a peasant, essentially) -- bodoh dan hodoh (stupid and ugly)
Spanish: hijo de puta (son of a whore)
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Originally posted by moki: yep -- but pronounced "ee-ho" (hard H) |
Gerbnl: Rot op, klootzak
(Heb gewoon in Rotterdam gewoont)Developer was quite reserved with his German ones. The Germans swear like anything and apart from the universal "Scheisse", have loads of words, ranging from mild ones such as "Penner" (Hobo) to "Arschficker".
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Originally posted by deekay1: LOOOL it's "scheisse"! if you meant german, that is! 
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Phonetically it's pronounced : (shy � suh)
I think that's correct? Got that from Austin Powers:Goldmember
We need more phonetics people. I'd hate to swear at someone with the emphasis wrong.
Too bad we couldn't have a mp3 file we could all add to.
To add to the above Mandarin ones (also from Taiwan I guess):
all phonetically based (obviously):
Ta Ma de - literally "his mothers", but meaning is more goddamn it.
Ta Nai-Nai de - literally "his grandmother's", means same as above... just sounds funnier when you say "Nai-Nai". especially with a lot of nasal. Oh, BTW "nai-nai" is also slang for titties.
gan ni ma - F your mother
gan ni nian - F your mother (nian is more formal way of saying Mother)
gan ni ji-ba - F yourself (?)
wong ba daan - literally "turtle's egg", I think the meaning is basically as*hole. Never gave it much thought when I use it... it just comes out.
Note - spoken chinese has 4 tones... if you f that up... it sounds funny....and sometimes becomes a different meaning. So consult your local chinese buddy for tone usage
all phonetically based (obviously):
Ta Ma de - literally "his mothers", but meaning is more goddamn it.
Ta Nai-Nai de - literally "his grandmother's", means same as above... just sounds funnier when you say "Nai-Nai". especially with a lot of nasal. Oh, BTW "nai-nai" is also slang for titties.
gan ni ma - F your mother
gan ni nian - F your mother (nian is more formal way of saying Mother)
gan ni ji-ba - F yourself (?)
wong ba daan - literally "turtle's egg", I think the meaning is basically as*hole. Never gave it much thought when I use it... it just comes out.
Note - spoken chinese has 4 tones... if you f that up... it sounds funny....and sometimes becomes a different meaning. So consult your local chinese buddy for tone usage
Afrikaans wins in my book.
These choice quotes come from when Troll and theolein were trading insults in the Politics Lounge a while back (just for fun of course - things get pretty bad in the Pol. Lounge sometimes but not quite this bad):
"Ek gaan jou gat skop, 'lat jou neus blooi," - I'm going to kick your ass until your nose bleeds
"Ek gaan jou arm afbreek en jou met die natkant slaan" - I am going to break off you arm and hit you with the wet end.
These choice quotes come from when Troll and theolein were trading insults in the Politics Lounge a while back (just for fun of course - things get pretty bad in the Pol. Lounge sometimes but not quite this bad):
"Ek gaan jou gat skop, 'lat jou neus blooi," - I'm going to kick your ass until your nose bleeds
"Ek gaan jou arm afbreek en jou met die natkant slaan" - I am going to break off you arm and hit you with the wet end.
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Originally posted by theolein: Not in Spain it isn't. There a j is pronounced similar to "ch" in German. This reminds me of a nice one from Spain: Toma mi butifarra: Lit. Take my sausage, suck my ****. |
Strange; my brother is fluent in Spanish, and lived in Spain for 8 years (Madrid -- conquistadorian lisp and everything), and he pronounces it as I stated it: ee-ho (hard h, like your about to spit)
I love hungarian, I forgot all my words except Kozonom or jo napot kivano, and some other ones. Wasn't there one that said, Let the polar bear ****-it for you!
any way, I prefer cursing in French, except it got me in trouble with this Lawyer women here in SF, who knew she spoke it.
elle est une pute!
It's weird, I never curse in Spanish now, mostly in English or in French.
This is for all you mth*# F^%Kers, hijos de la gran puta, nuestra tierra, que sigamos tomando todo, nos vamos a matar. Cabrones!! Ce la vash!
any way, I prefer cursing in French, except it got me in trouble with this Lawyer women here in SF, who knew she spoke it.
elle est une pute!
It's weird, I never curse in Spanish now, mostly in English or in French.
This is for all you mth*# F^%Kers, hijos de la gran puta, nuestra tierra, que sigamos tomando todo, nos vamos a matar. Cabrones!! Ce la vash!
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Originally posted by moki: Strange; my brother is fluent in Spanish, and lived in Spain for 8 years (Madrid -- conquistadorian lisp and everything), and he pronounces it as I stated it: ee-ho (hard h, like your about to spit) |
farsi has some good ones, and pratically no one will have a clue what you're saying, that's for sure.
-cus (basically meaning cu*t) - it's really really bad.
-foisha (whore, more or less)
-hook (with a throaty emphasis on the 'h') means pig, not really offensive, but I like to use it.
-cus (basically meaning cu*t) - it's really really bad.
-foisha (whore, more or less)
-hook (with a throaty emphasis on the 'h') means pig, not really offensive, but I like to use it.
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Originally posted by Stradlater: http://www.insultmonger.com/swearing/ |
Cool, that site has a ton of Finnish swearwords and curses!
I now know how to say, "Your mother copulates with reindeers."
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Originally posted by mrfrost: Best thread I've read all year ! Klootzakken. |
Ok: so let's go on...!
Here's one of the most vulgar Italian "cursings" I've found, sofar - for example:Non mi cacare il cazzo!
Mi fai cacare il cazzo!
Sei un cacacazzi!
(and so on...)
Literally, one is supposed to be a dickshitter (i.e., a very obnoxius individual) - translation of the above:
Don't sh�t my dick
You make me sh�t my dick!, or (?) You make my dick sh�t!
You are a dickshitter!
[Hey, the human intestinal products seem to be censored on these forums...]