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VeeDaily language lesson.
Gary@VeroniqueB99 I think I like #2, the Finnish one, the best.
oscarfalcon"Me Vale Un Pepino" always makes me laugh...
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Cassi@VeroniqueB99 Screenshot of a Tweet by Adam Sharp, @AdamCSharp, posted at 8:02 a.m. on 21/12/2021 with 874 Retweets, 211 Quote Tweets, and 3,089 Likes: "'Zero fucks given' in other languages. Number 6: Itās sausage to me (German). Number 5: I care a cucumber (Spanish). Number 4: It can oxidize on my anus (Dutch). Number 3: I slap my balls on it (French). Number 2: lt interests me as much as a kilogram of shit (Finnish). Number 1: Flowers on my dick and bees all around (Greek)"
MATAK79@VeroniqueB99 I slap my balls on it !? lol
Le Chep@MATAK79 @VeroniqueB99 yeah, je m'en bats les couilles.
Sometimes shortened to balek or balec
@VeroniqueB99 @MATAK79 ce qui n'introduit pas "balek" ;)
Rick Calkins@VeroniqueB99
Read #1 and immediately thought of The Cowsills; The rain, the park and other things. 'Flowers in her hair...'
Read #1 and immediately thought of The Cowsills; The rain, the park and other things. 'Flowers in her hair...'
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ā Fish Id Wardrobe@VeroniqueB99 You would think that Germans, of all people, would care about sausage.
Dammitjanet@fishidwardrobe @VeroniqueB99 from weiners to wurst, I care lol
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Jaap Zeldenrust@VeroniqueB99
The Dutch expression "Het zal/kan me aan m'n reet roesten" is more accurately translated as "It shall/can rust to my buttcrack."
The Dutch expression "Het zal/kan me aan m'n reet roesten" is more accurately translated as "It shall/can rust to my buttcrack."
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Sven Vabar@VeroniqueB99
"I have lingonberries" in Estonian
"I have lingonberries" in Estonian
esanikerruzegibat@svenvabar Nice one š¤£š¤£š¤£ I had to look up the meaning of 'lingonberry', though...
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Yes, lingonberries don't grow in warmer countries. Common in Estonia though.
Yes, lingonberries don't grow in warmer countries. Common in Estonia though.
@svenvabar Oh that's actually almost cute!! š¤£
myrmepropagandistIs the last one THAT bad? I wouldn't know...
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I love the Dutch one (I can only praise the ones who also invented the 'Dutch oven')
Extra ball:
> Basque: 'I care five' (Niri bost axola)
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Szymon SokĆ³Å šµš±šŖšŗšŗš¦@VeroniqueB99 Polish has several such terms, but the most commonly used are "LejÄ na to" ("I piss on that") and "Zwisa mi to" ("It dangles from me" - probably a reference to penis).
Natalia Ossipova@blotosmetek @VeroniqueB99 "I'm pissing/spitting/pooping on that" is probably common in every Slavic language. š // @nicklockwood
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Jacek WesoÅowski@VeroniqueB99 It's embarassing to me that this particular idiom in Polish is not particularly nice or innovative. One version is "I care a shit" (i.e. not at all) and the other is "I have this outfucked" (literally "wyjebane", nb. it's an example of the glorious Polish prefix-suffix syntax, which is more interesting, but not on topic).
Wolf480pl@jzillw @VeroniqueB99 there's also "I have it up my ass" ("mam to w dupie")
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Just call me Ash@VeroniqueB99 personally, I'd translate the Dutch one as "it can corrode on my ass" š
But yes, lovely collection š
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Bugspriet at EH23 Dect 3303@VeroniqueB99 'Gepflegte Arschatmung' is a thing in german too.
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Skiriki Fyxe"Ei kiinnosta paskaakaan/paskan vertaa", in Finnish. š
We do have other forms too!
"KiviƤkin kiinnostaa." "Even rocks find that interesting." (Sarcastic.)
"EVVK" ("Ei voisi vƤhempƤƤ kiinnostaa.") "I couldn't care less." This one is from a comedy TV series, where they were running a Star Trek: TNG parody! In 1990s! And this saying is still alive!
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creohn@VeroniqueB99 Norddeutsch: Dat kan mi man ahn TĆ¼ffel tuten
Fran@VeroniqueB99 as a french alternative, we also have "it touches one of my ball without moving the other"
@Fran ? Ca m'en touche une sans me faire bouger l'autre? Jamais entendu... moins populaire peut etre?
IrĆØne LangletPlus prĆ©sidentielle, peut-ĆŖtre...
https://www.rtl.fr/actu/politique/a-m-en-touche-une-sans-faire-bouger-l-autre-les-origines-de-l-expression-de-chirac-7900171648
Medea Vanamondeš³ļøāā§ļø ā@VeroniqueB99 Iām stealing Oxidize on my anus
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WGAvanDijk@VeroniqueB99
More Dutch:
Dat kan me geen bal schelen. (One ball difference is not important to me)
Het kan me niet bommen. (It would not bomb me; more precise: It would not hit me)
Mij een biet. (Mine a beet)
Het kan me gestolen worden. (It could get stolen as far as I am concerned)
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Oriel Jutty 
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Interesting. The last one is similar to (but subtly different from) German "es kann mir gestohlen bleiben", meaning "it can remain stolen as far as I am concerned" (or, because of a grammatical ambiguity around mir) "it can remain stolen from me".
Interesting. The last one is similar to (but subtly different from) German "es kann mir gestohlen bleiben", meaning "it can remain stolen as far as I am concerned" (or, because of a grammatical ambiguity around mir) "it can remain stolen from me".
Sven A. Schmidt@VeroniqueB99 Greek FTW š¤£
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Eric McCorkle...the hell's young on in the Netherlands?
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Guillaume Racicot@VeroniqueB99 French Canadian: I care about the chalice
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vitaut š¤ā¤ļøš¤ šŗš¦@VeroniqueB99 Dutch Rust developers went to far.
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@VeroniqueB99 Also German: It passes by my arse.
("Es geht mir am Arsch vorbei.")
("Es geht mir am Arsch vorbei.")