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Re:Compound pejoratives on Reddit by walrus01 on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @05:29PM (#31925942)
If you're really good friends with a somewhat crude Australian, he might call you a cunt. It's a term of endearment.

But cunt might also be used as a serious insult.

Entirely depends on context.

There's also a creative arabic language insult, or variation on it, that can be translated as "my dick in your religion" or "a thousand dicks in your religion"

Re:Compound pejoratives on Reddit by cs137 on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @05:55PM (#31926172)
Eastern Europeans have some of the best insults, too. Hungarian has "A horse's dick in your ass." (Lófasz a seggedbe.)

I believe it is the Serbs who use "May the Pope fuck your 18th-great-grandmother." (How the Pope shall choose which one of the insultee's 524,288 candidate ancestors, that's not clear.)

The famous "Go fuck yourself" directed at the Russian warship by the Ukrainians translates, literally, even better: иди нахуй (idi nahui) = "go to dick".

Re:Compound pejoratives on Reddit by bbarnett on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @08:22PM (#31927371)
How the Pope shall choose which one of the insultee's 524,288 candidate ancestors, that's not clear.

You make a lot of assumptions about some people's family trees. What if the 17th grandmother is also your 16th grandmother on the other side?

Eg, small village, grandmother has 6 daughters, they have 6 daughters, out of the 36 daughters 20 could be lineage grandmothers.

In fact, the further back you go, the greater chance of overlap.

(Note: growing up in a small town has no bearing on me thinking of this! None!)

Re:Compound pejoratives on Reddit by walrus01 on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @06:01PM (#31926229)
there's a Farsi language insult that only women use towards another woman, translates as flat cunt

the flat part is very important and makes it even more aggressive.

literally, kos chapat

the chapat is the same farsi original root word as you'd find in urdu and hindi for a chapati (the flat bread) or anything else that is flat.

Re:Compound pejoratives on Reddit by bergenty on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @08:27PM (#31927395)
I think India does it better— “Go suck/fuck your mom’s/sister’s dick” is about as good as it gets.

Or “your asshole is a fountain” is even better.

Re:Compound pejoratives on Reddit by mdp2021 on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @07:04PM (#31926822)
> How the Pope shall choose which one of the insultee's [...] 18th-great-grandmother

Interesting question, and I could immediately propose:

-- that the subject ancestor availability on earth is considered a possibility, as they may be implicitly supposed to procreate at first biological occasion;

-- that the identity of said ancestor must crawl the female side of the chain, as "mater semper certa, pater numquam", especially supposedly in the case of the insultee.

Re:Compound pejoratives on Reddit by Tenoke on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @08:00PM (#31927227)
It's really more 'go on dick'.
Re:Compound pejoratives on Reddit by d1sxeyes on Thursday June 30, 2022 @12:43PM (#31935137)
Yes, хуй can also be used with в instead of на, so the ‘on’ is better than ‘to’. However, we could combine the two to be even more accurate and imply the motion: ‘go onto dick’. We can also improve the translation by adding an article: ‘go onto a dick’.

Alternatively, we can make a slightly more idiomatic translation by fiddling a bit with the verb: “get on a dick” is my favourite version of this, conveying the meaning well without sacrificing too much accuracy.

Re:Compound pejoratives on Reddit by checkyoursudo on Thursday June 30, 2022 @05:53AM (#31930459)
Prepositions are fickle. For example, in Swedish you can learn just 'på' and be fine in 90% of situations. :)
Re:Compound pejoratives on Reddit by Rebelgecko on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @07:45PM (#31927131)
Perhaps the Serbian insult is also an accusation that one's family tree is extremely inbred?
Re:Compound pejoratives on Reddit by bergenty on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @08:25PM (#31927381)
Cunt said with a certain tone to a woman in Australia is still serious business. It depends on context and that’s hard to quantify.
Re:Compound pejoratives on Reddit by tl_donson on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @05:51PM (#31926141)
depending on the tone, “mate” can be way more aggressive than “cunt”.
Re:Compound pejoratives on Reddit by jozzas on Thursday June 30, 2022 @12:14AM (#31928652)
"Oi mate. You havin' a good night?"

(This implies that you are not mates, and may in fact be about to start having a not-good night)

Re:Compound pejoratives on Reddit by akpa1 on Thursday June 30, 2022 @05:50AM (#31930440)
That word is one of very few that I will never say, along with slurs. Just goes to show that dialects are, in fact, a thing.