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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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[–] 32 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Portuguese is full of these, but how about vai pra casa do caralho.

Which roughly translates to "go to the dick's home", basically another way of saying "go fuck yourself", but even more vulgar somehow.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Portuguese here. "Diz que vais cagar e baza", which translates to "Say you go shit and get outa here", when someone is not welcome.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    Oh, another one: "deves comer gelados com a testa", which translates to "you must eat icecream with your forehead", a not so soft way to call someone stoopid

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    forehead, not forefront. :)

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Brazil "eu caguei e andei" (I shat and walked). Functionally equivalent to "I don't give a shit" but in Portuguese one actually shits but doesn't care to wipe and walks away or walks at the same as is shitting.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    I've heard 'caralho' used to be the name for the lookout on top of a ship's mast (later turned into yet another word for dick) and sailors were sent to duty on the caralho as punishment?

    I'm not Portuguese though, so if any native could confirm ...

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    That's what I've heard too, I don't know how accurate that is though.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Caralho, aka Gavea, being the crow's nest (the highest spot on the ship) is correct, though it's uncommon knowledge. No idea when it was phased out of "professional" usage. As for why it became slang for dick, it's a big and hard mast with a noticeable "head" at the top.

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