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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@CiaraNi @MiaMarkTwo For @eclectech's benefit "A diabhail" is pronounced something like "A Yeowl" in English phonetics (to rhyme with owl)
@ccferrie @MiaMarkTwo @eclectech Thanks. It's not the most phonetic of words right enough, even by Irish standards
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@eclectech
Thai, provided by my partner who is Thai:ห่าอะไรวะ
Literal translation would be something like "what kind of cholera is this?"
@petherfile Now I want to use the literal version in English. A monotone 'what kind of cholera is this?' could be so expressive, dripping with disdain.
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@eclectech
Thai, provided by my partner who is Thai:ห่าอะไรวะ
Literal translation would be something like "what kind of cholera is this?"
Wait, There Are Kinds?
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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
In Spanish (Latinamerica) we have:
"Puta Madre" which would translate as roughly "whore mother" (it loses something in translation).
Also there is: "Con Una Chingada!" which would be in something like "with a big fuck" in English (again, translation issues).
And a distant one would be "Oh Que La Chingada" which is something like "oh what the big fuck" or "oh what a fuck" again the translation does nothing to the deliciousness of saying these out loud in a proper setting.
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@SuneAuken @silhelm @eclectech That too
@CiaraNi @SuneAuken @silhelm @eclectech a longer version, which I feel is used to soften it a bit:" For ind i hede hule helvede" (hot, hollow hell, or something)
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@MiaMarkTwo
I was reminded recently of the idea that swear words have origins in three categories: religion, sex, and excrement. I find it interesting that there's (at least) one less category represented in Scandinavian languages.
@CiaraNi @eclectech@gnate @MiaMarkTwo @CiaraNi @eclectech But we have several really bad curses, such as "for pokker" (for smallpox' sake) and "kraft-ædemig" (may cancer eat me)
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@gnate @MiaMarkTwo @CiaraNi @eclectech But we have several really bad curses, such as "for pokker" (for smallpox' sake) and "kraft-ædemig" (may cancer eat me)
@jakobtougaard
'kraft-ædemig' really is quite the curse. -
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