I had a request for this one (text provided, believed to be correct, in part based on it being used by an "angry Welsh person") 😆
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@kym @eclectech i think profane turns of phrase like "ёбаный в рот" or "ёб твою мать" fit more
@mynameistillian @eclectech btw, it’s ёб твою мать” and “ёбаный в рот”. poor Ё gets omitted these days
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@mynameistillian @eclectech btw, it’s ёб твою мать” and “ёбаный в рот”. poor Ё gets omitted these days
@kym @eclectech fair, fair!
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We are definitely on.
Have already seen that it's not going to be a translation as such, which is fine (and exactly why I wanted to ask Proper Human People).
It is definitely the sense and usage of FFS I'm after.
So... whatever you mutter under your breath when you see the news headlines in the morning, that's what works.
But if you can give me a literal translation too that would be ace - already a couple of interesting ones in the thread
@eclectech I think there might be no German equivalent, all I can think of is actually just "what the fuck/hell/...". So I tried to come up with a direct translation, and I think "um Fickeswillen" is a good thing to say in a dismayed way. Although "fickhalber" or "fickeswegen" sound fun too, but they're more practical words, more of a literal "I did this for the sake of fuck".
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@eclectech In Dutch, and currently living in The Hague, I would say something like "Krijg nou de tering!", or in local dialect spelling: "Krèg nâh de tering!".
We Dutch love to curse in disease-related terms, this would wish TB on something/someone, but in a general meaning, it would be closest to FFS.
(See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_profanity#Profanity_related_to_illness_and_diseases)
@leonieke My friends from The Hague would say, "Krijg nou tieten!" (Now get tits). Probably an attempt to avoid the disease, but still baffling. @eclectech
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@eclectech In french I'd translate as "bordel de merde" (lit. "shit brothel"), or just "bordel" for short.
@laomaiweng @eclectech My French friends expanded this to "Merde putain bordel!"
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OK, lets give this a shot. Basically with my linguistics skills I will be able to do ONE more. That would be quite a short series. To make it longer a fedi collaboration will be required
If you fancy helping please let me know how to write "for fuck's sake" in your language (native, or one you're pretty fluent in - no literal translations from machines please).
Of course the big question is whether it's used elsewhere?
It *might* be a very short series
@eclectech In Dutch I'd say, "Wat zullen we NOU krijgen?!" It doesn't swear, but the meaning is the same.
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@leonieke My friends from The Hague would say, "Krijg nou tieten!" (Now get tits). Probably an attempt to avoid the disease, but still baffling. @eclectech
@EllenB @eclectech Hahaha, yeah, that's the more polite one
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As a Welsh learner, I grapple with mutations (where the spelling of a word varies depending on grammatical factors).
Of all the letters in the Welsh alphabet, the only ones not involved in mutation at any point are FF and S, which always amuses me, as FFS is what I often think while trying to learn mutations.
I can never decide whether Welsh changing the spelling of words base on the previous / next one is more or less confusing than English’s choice to change the pronunciation but not the spelling (e.g. the apple, the pair).
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@kym @eclectech "якорь мне в жопу" is a very vibrant and funny variant, but much nonstandard lmao
@mynameistillian @eclectech trying to think of kazakh equivalent for ffs. the only closest that comes to mind is “түф” with the elongation of the vowel
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I had a request for this one (text provided, believed to be correct, in part based on it being used by an "angry Welsh person")
Considering making this the first in a series. A multilingual collection of "for fuck's sake".
I could eventually make a poster of colourful global disgruntlement.
@eclectech Just as an afterthought: in Friday Night Dinner the father always used "shit on it" and for sure that would work well as a colourful Image.
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@eclectech Just as an afterthought: in Friday Night Dinner the father always used "shit on it" and for sure that would work well as a colourful Image.
@LappenjammerDieZweite Hah, you're not wrong - have added that to my notes for when I run out of FFS (just gathering everyone's replies from yesterday and the list is Quite A Size
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ffs for me has always been - ferrets farts sake.@PhilRudland This is by far the sweetest post in my notifications as a result of this thread.
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@LappenjammerDieZweite Hah, you're not wrong - have added that to my notes for when I run out of FFS (just gathering everyone's replies from yesterday and the list is Quite A Size
)@eclectech You just can't do small projects, can you? You have to improve everybody's fediverse experience with hats, sparkles, boops and colourful curses
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@eclectech You just can't do small projects, can you? You have to improve everybody's fediverse experience with hats, sparkles, boops and colourful curses
@LappenjammerDieZweite This one is definitely going to need some polling too. In some languages there seems to be a lot agreement, others have a wild (and very entertaining) variety.
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@LappenjammerDieZweite This one is definitely going to need some polling too. In some languages there seems to be a lot agreement, others have a wild (and very entertaining) variety.
@eclectech Talking of German, somethibg we could possibly agree on is "Fickscheisse" (or FCKSCHSS for short) as we love our compositive words
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I had a request for this one (text provided, believed to be correct, in part based on it being used by an "angry Welsh person")
Considering making this the first in a series. A multilingual collection of "for fuck's sake".
I could eventually make a poster of colourful global disgruntlement.
I love the styling, would definitely put such a thing on a wall somewhere.
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@ccferrie @MiaMarkTwo @eclectech
'A dhiabhail' is great - I love the actual sound of that word. So soft for a hard curse. Am only now thinking of the similarity in Danish and Irish here. In Danish, invoking the devil is also a way of saying 'for fuck's sake'. 'For Satan' - the devil - a dhiabhail. 'For Satan' is a stronger curse in everyday Danish speech than just using 'fuck' in English (as people do too).
@CiaraNi @MiaMarkTwo For @eclectech's benefit "A diabhail" is pronounced something like "A Yeowl" in English phonetics (to rhyme with owl)
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@eclectech @CiaraNi I think it's the case in Scandinavian languages that their proper swear words are all religion-based, rather than, erm, carnal/physical.
@eclectech @MiaMarkTwo @CiaraNi
Quebecois french is much the same, it seems every way to swear is a sacred churchy object; some variation on ‘tabarnak’ would probably fit the project, but wait for actual replies for Quebec…
Hey Quebecers, what’s the closest expression to the UK’s “for fuck’s sake” in your neck of the woods?
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@eclectech @MiaMarkTwo @CiaraNi
Quebecois french is much the same, it seems every way to swear is a sacred churchy object; some variation on ‘tabarnak’ would probably fit the project, but wait for actual replies for Quebec…
Hey Quebecers, what’s the closest expression to the UK’s “for fuck’s sake” in your neck of the woods?
@DavidM_yeg @eclectech @CiaraNi I imagine @stephanie is the best person to ask.
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@DavidM_yeg @eclectech @CiaraNi I imagine @stephanie is the best person to ask.
@MiaMarkTwo @eclectech @CiaraNi @stephanie
Yes, I figured she and a couple others I know would see it.
