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Re:“Zero fucks given” in other languages by konart on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @02:47AM (#29646544)
>It’s horseradish to me (Russian)

Well, that's a one way to say it for sure, but that's almost the most delicate way, lol.

Re:“Zero fucks given” in other languages by hamstergene on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @03:51AM (#29646965)
That's a completely effortless translation.

I am pretty sure that "мне по хрену" is a parody on "мне по плечу" (literally "fits my shoulder" but means "doable to me / within my powers"). Russian people coin new expressions with such witticisms all the time.

So, reproducing the same parody in English, one could say "fits my wiener". Horseradish here being an obscenity-avoiding euphemism for c*ck (like English "wiener"), not the plant (just like all the sausages and cucumbers in the other languages).

Re:“Zero fucks given” in other languages by Jenya_ on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @06:30AM (#29647955)
| a parody on "мне по плечу"

As I native, I would assume that "мне по хрену"/"мне похрен" is an euphemism of the more rough variant "мне похуй" (it is up to my dick, same height as my dick).

Re:“Zero fucks given” in other languages by john_moscow on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @02:52AM (#29646580)
I am assuming, they meant "ну и хрен с ним", that is better translated as "let him have the horseradish" i.e. "let him get fucked".
Re:“Zero fucks given” in other languages by buybackoff on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @08:14AM (#29648853)
The most delicate and quite popular is "It's purple to me" / Мне фиолетово.

The story goes that it came from chemistry, where a litmus paper is purple in a neutral liquid, so a person does not react in any way.

Re:“Zero fucks given” in other languages by aasasd on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @03:07AM (#29646676)
It's also definitely a ‘minced oath’ for ‘похуй’—which involves the dick and a prefix/preposition that is basically random, as usual for abstract idiomatic expressions in various languages.

For general absence of fucks, there's also the suitable ‘it doesn't fuck me’.

Re:“Zero fucks given” in other languages by antender on Friday December 24, 2021 @01:37AM (#29670971)
Yeah, and it's not even the funniest one of a bunch of different phrases. I really prefer adding dogs instead of horseraddishes: "да и пёс с ним".
Re:“Zero fucks given” in other languages by inkyoto on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @04:38AM (#29647254)
Yup. Something a grown-up could safely say around the family or relatives.

«На хую вертел» is one of the multiple creative ways to express «don't give a flying fig about something».

Re:“Zero fucks given” in other languages by laluser on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @02:54AM (#29646588)
Same thing in Spanish. ‘Me importa un pepino (cucumber)’ is pretty tame. Most (region dependent, of course) would say ‘carajo’ instead.
Re:“Zero fucks given” in other languages by _RPL5_ on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @04:39AM (#29647269)
"Horseradish" is a euphemism for "dick." Whatever translation tool he was using didn't pick up on it ;/
Re:“Zero fucks given” in other languages by azangru on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @08:51AM (#29649256)
Yes, the horseradish here is a word that sounds similar to dick, and yet is inoffensive enough not to be tabooed. A similar kind of substitution in English would be heck instead of hell, or shoot instead of shit.
Re:“Zero fucks given” in other languages by roveo on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @03:15AM (#29646738)
there's also "да не ебет", which means roughly, "well, it doesn't fuck me"
Re:“Zero fucks given” in other languages by konart on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @06:00AM (#29647753)
I mean... you can put it in many different forms in russian.