• anamethatisnt@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    With the abundance of languages in the EU I imagine that allows us to find quite many words that are phonetically similar to rude words of other languages.
    Wouldn’t it be fun to see if it’s only the English language that are afforded such privileges of denial?

    On the other hand I don’t really care what happens in the eurovision song contest.

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      1 month ago

      I’d say the issue here is that the rest of the song is in English. It’s literally only this one word that is supposedly in Maltese, in the sentence “I do it all the time, serving kant”.

    • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      1 month ago

      That could be a new type of competition, a cuntetition will you say

      1. English: Cunt
      2. French: Merde
      3. German: Scheiße
      4. Spanish: Cabrón
      5. Italian: Stronzo
      6. Dutch: Kut
      7. Swedish: Fitta
      8. Danish: Lort
      9. Norwegian: Drit
      10. Finnish: Paska
      11. Portuguese: Merda
      12. Russian: Хуй (khuy)
      13. Polish: Kurwa
      14. Czech: Hovno
      15. Hungarian: Szar
      16. Greek: Μαλάκας (malakas)
      17. Turkish: Siktir
      18. Romanian: Măgar
      19. Bulgarian: Пикня (piknya)
      20. Slovak: Hovno
      21. Slovenian: Sranje
      22. Croatian: Jebeni
      23. Serbian: Јебати (jebati)
      24. Ukrainian: Хуй (khuy)
      25. Lithuanian: Šūdas
      26. Latvian: Sūds
      27. Estonian: Sitt
    • Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 month ago

      One that i hate is from the high german dialects: servus

      So many wanna be intelectuals always go like this when you say it: “actually did you know this word means slave, because the romans called their slaves with it and in english it means ‘serve us’. So you just called me a slave”

      The word “servus” doesnt come from latin and has been in use before the romans infuenced the south germanic tribes!

  • Saleh@feddit.org
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    29 days ago

    Meanwhile Israel will participate yet again while committing genocide and ethnic cleansing.

    So remember kids: Murdering, Raping, Torturing and Starving women and girls is okay. Using a word that might sound like it is referring to their private parts, even though the word is just normal in your language, is completely unacceptable.