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What is your favorite insult in your native language that doesn't exist or cant be directly translated in English?

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Ill start:

“Me cago en tus muertos” - ill shit all over your dead relatives. Spanish.

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1bluepixel@lemmy.world
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In Quebec French, people sometimes say of someone who’s not particularly bright:

“His mom rocked him/her too close to the wall.”

It’s just so… vivid and random.

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ValiantDust@feddit.de
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Oh cool, we have a very similar one in German: “His/her swing stood too close to the wall.”

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Vakbrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Bizarre j’ai jamais entendu ça…

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Tetsuo@jlai.lu
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C’est bien connu en France:

Il a été bercé trop près du mur.

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Vakbrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Mieux vaut tard que jamais pour l’ajouter à mon arsenal d’insulte 😁

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1bluepixel@lemmy.world
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Ça vient surtout du Saguenay!

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richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one
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I interpret that as is each rocking made him hit the head against the wall, with the corresponding brain damage… :)

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triclops6@lemmy.ca
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Wait I’ve never heard this! so like

“Sa mère l’a bercé trop proche du mur”?

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1bluepixel@lemmy.world
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Yes, exactly! Or, “Ya été bercé trop proche du mur.”

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triclops6@lemmy.ca
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Amazing thanks!

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BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
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A strong insult in french would be to tell that someone has been “fini à la pisse”.

I don’t know how to translate that but it would means that their dad did not have enough sperm so he used urine to conceive them.

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