What is your favorite insult in your native language that doesn’t exist or cant be directly translated in English?

@vis4valentine@lemmy.ml · 2Y

gnzl · 2Y

In Chile, not really an insult but rather a lament over how dumb people are sometimes:

“Si los weones volaran, pasaría nublado” (If dumb people could fly it would always be cloudy)

@hstde@feddit.de · edit-2 2Y

In Germany we have the saying: “Herr lass Hirn regnen. Oder Backsteine. Egal Hauptsache du triffst!”

Which roughly translates to: “lord let it rain brains or bricks. Doesn’t matter as long as it hits”

Iron Lynx · 2Y

I’m pretty sure Backsteine translates to bricks in general, am I right? On my side of the border, a baksteen is a brick.

@hstde@feddit.de · 2Y

Yes of course you’re right, let’s just pretend that my brain didn’t just stop processing language correctly 😁