What is your favorite insult in your native language that doesn't exist or cant be directly translated in English?
What is your favorite insult in your native language that doesn't exist or cant be directly translated in English?
Ill start:
"Me cago en tus muertos" - ill shit all over your dead relatives. Spanish.
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Triangeljosti.
The Jostiband is a Dutch orchestra for people with a developmental disability, mainly people with down syndrome.
A [triangle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_(musical_instrument\)) , or triangel in Dutch, is possibly the simplest instrument you can think of.
So calling someone a ‘triangeljosti’ is basically comparing them to someone who plays the simplest possible instrument in a band for developmentally disabled people.
141 1 ReplyThat’s so specific. lmao
37 0 ReplyI'm wheezing. Never heard it before but the image is livid in my head.
10 0 ReplyThis reminds me of the not-very-edifying-at-all moment when "joey" became a universal term of abuse in UK playgrounds.
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3 0 ReplyHuh, that's a rare one.
1 0 ReplyNever heard that one being used, though.
1 0 ReplyIt’s not super common but I do hear it on occasion.
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That just sounds like ableism
26 32 ReplyWell, yeah, it’s an insult so it’s not exactly meant to be flattering for either the insulted party or the person they are being compared to.
47 0 ReplyI mean, OP asked for insults. You should be prepared to see some you don't like (which is the point of an insult after all).
31 1 ReplyIt absolutely is. Many insults are.
8 0 ReplyAs an autistic I aprove, if you arent saying this to a ND or mentally disabled person.
8 1 ReplyI mean if any intelligence-based insult is, this one certainly is. The thing is it is better to be smart than not, so trying to shut those all down is probably a fool's errand.
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