Ill start:

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

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      This is by far the best one.

      No harsh words or vulgarity but lots of emotional damage.

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      Schnitzelkind. Breaded-veal kid (wienerschnitzel / milanesa). Basically a kid so ugly, that the parents needed to put a schnitzel around his neck so that at least the dogs would play with him.

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      Heya. I’m an American, and I’ve got to say thank you. I seriously look forward to calling someone a “ball violin” in English, but if fully intend to add klootviool and and klootzak to my day to day swear bank. Those are so satisfying to say!

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        Just don’t forget that the “oo” is pronounced as the “oh” in “oh shit” and not like the “oo” in “cool” or “mood”. Same for the “a” in “zak”. It’s closer to “ahhh” as in “oooohh and ahhh” or “pasta” than it is to the “a” in “back”

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      Nice overview! I do not have any proof of this, but I think “Godverdomme”, which is still very common, is a bit unique because rather that God damning it or -you, it translates to God Damn Me.

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      I also quite like the word ‘droeftoeter’, meaning a sad/depressing person. The closest thing would be the word ‘loser’ in English.

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    My personal favourites from Finnish.

    “Ei ole kaikki muumit Muumilaaksossa” “Not having all the Moomins in Moomin Valley” Used for people who are either stupid or lack sanity. There are other variants of this and Moomin one is not older than a couple of decades.

    I find our version of Grammar Nazi pretty great. We call them comma fuckers.

    “Ei voi kauhalla ottaa jos on lusikalla annettu” “You can’t take with a ladle if it was given with a spoon”. This refers also to a lack of something, usually a lack of intelligence or sense.

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      “Not having all the Moomins in Moomin Valley”

      That’s totally something we’ll use. Thanks :D Also I’m stealing that. I’m stealing that insult and Americanizing it and you can’t stop me

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        Just be warned Moomins are a gateway to communism (Weird internet theory). Or at least to more Moomins. We literally have Moomin everything here.

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      In Denmark you have:

      • Paragraph Knight - someone who cares too much about rules and regulations.
      • Fly Fucker - someone who cares too much about something deeply insignificant.
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    Băga-mi-aș pula-n coliva mă-tii de să-mi sară coaiele din bomboană-n bomboană

    This is a highly niche one in my native language as well, as one must also know what is colivă - it’s basically a desert that we eat at funerals with m&m-sized candies in it as well. So it roughly translates let me stick my dick in your mother’s coliva so hard that my balls jump from candy to candy

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      Does the insult mean the colivā is served at your mother’s funeral, or that it’s the colivā your mother made? Also in what kind of context you use this insult?

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      That is elaborate, vulgar, and 100% delightful. I love hearing stuff like this. Cursing in American English is so boring lol

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    German: “Du Lappen”

    Translates to “You rag”, pretty much calling someone a loser or idiot.

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    Gea mor net af die Kondl. “Don’t step on my milk jug”. You’re annoying me and you better shut up or go away.

    Konnsch mor in Buggl oirutschn. “You can slide down my back”. I don’t give a fuck.

    German dialect from Tyrol.

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    Du hast doch nicht alle Tassen im Schrank - German, you don’t have all your cups in the drawer.

    Telling someone he is stupid via comparison to cups. Why? Who knows.

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      It’s like saying somebody is not the sharpest tool in the shed.

      My favorite way to say that somebody is stupid is to say “Er ist dumm wie drei Meter Feldweg”, translates to “he’s as dumb as three meters (a bit more than 9 yards) of dirt road”.

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      Reminds me of ones like “You’re one fry short of a Happy Meal”, or “You’ve lost some marbles”. They generally imply that you’ve lost or are missing some mental faculties.

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        “Schrank” is not really a drawer. Translating it as “cupboard” would be more appropriate, I think.

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          Ah, maybe. My vocabulary for kitchen furniture is a bit unclear sometimes what equates to what.

          Schrank would be a box with doors and several levels of storage inside.

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    If you want to say that you don’t care about something (as in: “I don’t give a fuck”), in Serbian you would say: “My dick hurts”. And that’s an expression you’ll hear almost daily. A less used variant of that, but still legit is: “My balls are beeping”.

    While not insulting, I’ll throw in our way to say: “I’m/You’re fucked”. It’s: “Jebao sam/si ježa u leđa”, which means: “I/You fucked a hedgehog in the back”

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    Brazilian portuguese tends to lack impactful phrases, but is full of single curse words. A big portion of them a clear example of how much negative bias there is culturally against certain groups (gay men, women in general, disabled), unfortunately :/

    One that isn’t often used, but that I almost always laugh loud whenever I hear, is “Enfia uma dentadura no cu e sorria pro caralho”, which roughly translates into “Stick a denture up your asshole and smile at the dick”. For when simply saying “go fuck yourself” isn’t enough.

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      Something about how fancy French sounds, juxtaposed with how vulgar the insult is, that makes it stick.

      Like a guy in a tuxedo, but with his junk out

      In English it’s more like a guy at Walmart in sweatpants with his junk out; not that shocking

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      I knew about “enculeurs de mouches”, or fly fucker, that is said about a person that is way too picky about useless details

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          A few years ago, when #MeToo was a big thing, I took a photo of an ant, and slapped the text #MierToo, specifically to mock and send to mierrenneukers

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      There’s a good one in Cantonese I learned from Hong Kong movies. It translates to “Are you talking?” but the implication is “You’re making noise, but is that supposed to be human speech?” Lei guuung yeieh!?

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    That’s not exact:

    • Me cago en tus muertos = I shit on your ancestors / I shit on your dead relatives.
    • Me cago en todos tus muertos = I shit on all of your ancestors / I shit on all of your dead relatives.

    And in the theme of insults from Spain, a loaded one is also: Me cago en tu puta madre = I shit on your fucking mother / I shit on your whore mother

    See, the thing with “puta/puto” is that it literally means “whore”, but it’s used to empathize cursings just like “fucking” is used in english. We’re even misusing it by putting it before verbs, imitating it’s use in english.

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    Oh, I’ve several. Irish people love a good curse.

    Go mbrise an diabhal do dhá chois May the devil break your legs

    Go ndéana an diabhal dréimire do chnámh do dhroma May the devil make a ladder out of your spine

    Go n-imí an droch aimsir leat That the bad weather leaves with you

    Go n-ithe an cat thú is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat May the cat eat you and may the devil eat the cat

    And my personal favourite: Lá breá ag do chairde, dod adhlacadh May your friends have a fine day, burying you

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    Not my native language but the German language has some pretty fantastic words/insults like “punchable face” (backpfeifengesicht) and “brain denier” (gehirnverweigerer).

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      “Dich soll der Blitz beim Scheißen treffen!”

      May lightning strike you while you shit. One of my personal favourites.

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        I hadn’t heard that one before but your opinion is objectively wrong: It’s not “kind of funny”, it’s hilarious.

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            I caught a ban from reddit for pointing out that COVID 19 could kill you. This was during the height of the pandemic too.

            People caught bans for some spectacularly stupid stuff on reddit and their reporting system is straight up broken, so plenty of bad shit goes ignored indefinitely.