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Swearing in my language is so bizarre it can't be translated to English (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Could you give an example? Also, which language?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Lebanese Arabic. Most curses are about female relatives, because female relatives are "sacred". People would literally kill you for it if you aren't extremely close friends, and even then some people don't accept it.

The most common curses are "Kiss emmak", which translates to "Your mom's pussy", or "Kess ekhtak", which means your sisters pussy. That's it. That's the curse you'll get your teeth knocked out for saying. You add a "Kess emmak b ayre" to it for more effect, which means "My dick is in your mom's pussy".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 years ago

Best avoid the sacred pussy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago

Well TIL. It's really curious to explore different cultures, even if it's just by little things like that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Swear words in English are poorly diversified and do not carry any strong meaning. Arabic however, has so many levels or swearing and so many things to insult. Such a diverse catalog of swearvwords and phrases.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

True. Are you Arab?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Yes I am.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Literally a doing your mom joke