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

submitted 2 years ago by vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Ill start:

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

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[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 76 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That’s so specific. lmao

[–] luna@kbin.social 22 points 2 years ago (5 children)

That just sounds like ableism

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 32 points 2 years ago

Well, 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.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 22 points 2 years ago

I 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).

[–] s20@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

It absolutely is. Many insults are.

[–] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

As an autistic I aprove, if you arent saying this to a ND or mentally disabled person.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I 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.

[–] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

I'm wheezing. Never heard it before but the image is livid in my head.

[–] vashti@feddit.uk 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This reminds me of the not-very-edifying-at-all moment when "joey" became a universal term of abuse in UK playgrounds.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Never heard that one being used, though.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago

It’s not super common but I do hear it on occasion.

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