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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 3 years ago by 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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[โ€“] 16 points 3 years ago (4 children)

I'm not a native speaker, but I've heard Japanese doesn't have any outright curses. That is, there are no words which are always bad, just bad in certain contexts.

Omae and Kisama were how one would refer to emperors. There are no more emperors so referring to someone that way is always sarcastic.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yup, that's why I mentioned they were disrespectful, but are often translated as curses for English understanding.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    What about "baka" or "bakaro" whatever the difference is, which I've heard countless times translated as "idiot" in anime?

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 3 years ago

    Baka and it's various forms are actually stupid, fool, idiot, and the like. Calling someone stupid is a pretty common way to insult them, so if you see that, it's probably pretty literal

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Can be insulting or friendly banter depending on tone and context.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I don't know the word but there's one Japanese word that means "stupid" but is basically the equivalent to the r-word in English. It's banned from being said on Japanese television.

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