General foreign swears

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NG

Tuesday, November 15, 2005 11:22 PM

Hey I was wondering if some of the nice shiny people around here to help me out with some foreign swear words.

I'm writing a new series of short stories that I'll bring up at a later date when they manifest themselves into something I've used 'foreign' swear words in my stories for some time, but the last one I did used quite heavy in the alien language of it and this time the story has no aliens and it's a full planet migration kind of thing so I'm trying to cut out all references to race etc. People are just people in the story so I thought adding swearing from other languages would help bridge the gaps, like the use of chinese does in Firefly as it ties down the fact that there aren't any distances between the english and chinese in it.

I've already got some going for the first story, which is now complete. Except I've forgotten a few

The big one I can't remember is 'hu shen', one of the characters shouts it at another (female) so I'm thinking it means bitch or something similar but I have no clue.

I've also tried swearsaurus at insultmonger and none of them are remotely useful. They're like a bunch of kids looking through a dictionary for 'naughty words' like I saw one which, literally, was 'a noble erection' and another was 'suck butter from my ass'. Seriously no one is going to be insulted by that, my 5 year old nephew insults better than that.

I work with the short and simple swears, where someone says something and you get the strange feeling you should be insulted but you don't know why.

Thanks people

OOKAMIKAWAHARA

Thursday, December 1, 2005 8:22 AM

No prob give ya a couple in Japanese. Trans is kinda tame compared to other languages
Sekarashika: Nagasaki slang for Shut the fuck up.
Shimatta: Damn
Kuso: Shit (I had added u which when written at end of word, means the letter before it should be extended, but checked and didn't need it.)
Ushi kuso: Bull shit, direct trans from English another way to say it is oki na usotsuki: lit a big liar.
yariman: slut or ho
baka: Fool
Baka yarou: Bastard
Hope this helps enjoy and have fun

We be aimen to be mibehaven boys and girls

NG

Sunday, December 4, 2005 12:53 AM

Thanks, I've managed to use one already.

OOKAMIKAWAHARA

Sunday, December 4, 2005 1:13 AM

No prob, Always glad to be of help!!! My theory on languages is you learn the fun stuff first and then build on the language and cultural aspects from there. Alright, which one did you end up using so far??? I've got the basics down. Need to work on the more colorful expressions, ie go through Serenity list and retrans a bunch of stuff into Japanese etc. Anyways take it easy and have fun!!

Capt, now this is what I call a fire fight!!

NG

Wednesday, December 7, 2005 1:20 AM

I used Sekarashika to end an argument and I also just got Baka muttered into a conversation. I think the hardest part of using it is to find the appropriate place so people know the rough meaning of what they're saying. It also mixes well with my use of mythology and cultures in my story. I also used the Japanese of donkey 'Usagiuma' as replacement for jackass.

Japanese is going to play a large role in some of the story, which is mostly because I like Japanese

I used to be quite good at spanish through a similar theory to yours, but then suddenly one day it was just gone like I had the knowledge lobotomized.

LUCKYSPENCER7

Wednesday, December 7, 2005 1:36 AM

I'd offer you some French swears, but they hardly measure up to those Japanese ones :)

NG

Wednesday, December 7, 2005 1:41 AM

Swears are swears, I've got spanish ones in and german. They aren't as unique as the japanese ones, it's more about where they're put. So feel free to offer them, I'll find a time and place for them

PINGJING

Wednesday, December 7, 2005 2:15 AM

Well, the native Germans on this board can probably be more help, but I'm happy to share those that I know:

Halt's Maul! = Shut up!

Verpiss dich! = F*** off! (I'm not sure what maturity level this board is, so I'll try to keep the English clean)

Bist du bescheuert? = Are you crazy? or Are you daft?
Or Du bist total bescheuert.

Du kannst mich mal! and Leck mich am Arsch!
These are both translated as Sod you! in dict.leo.org, but that's a British translation... I think they're about equivalent to F*** you!

That's all I got right now.

OOKAMIKAWAHARA

Wednesday, December 7, 2005 9:20 AM

No Prob, glad I could be of help. Yeah have some fun ones. Your one of jackass, although it works is not the correct one. Lit its just donkey ie rabbit type horse. Usagi is rabbit and uma/ba is horse. A better trans of Jack ass is Roba. Still means donkey but a better way of using it as Jackass. tatoeba(for example): sorera no keisatsu wa cho roba da yo!!! (Those cops are really acting like Jack asses!!)nothing against cops just decided to add it in sorry) Another one that I can trans real quick from the list up for Serenity is Stinken Horse piss (kusai na uma unko/kuso) lit stinken Horse crap. unko or kuso can be used in this. means the same thing. Yeah it happens, gotta keep up practicing it or you lose it. One of my friends that stayed w/ me for a year. His English got pretty good but he didn't practice it when he went back so its alot harder for him to converse. Anyways have fun and I will try and throw a couple more up sometime here.

Sarge, which way we flanken ??? I swear these boys couldn't hit side of a damn barn. Thats what they get for joinen the Alliance

CBY

Tuesday, December 13, 2005 4:53 PM

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Originally posted by pingjing:
Well, the native Germans on this board can probably be more help, but I'm happy to share those that I know:

Halt's Maul! = Shut up!

Verpiss dich! = F*** off! (I'm not sure what maturity level this board is, so I'll try to keep the English clean)

Bist du bescheuert? = Are you crazy? or Are you daft?
Or Du bist total bescheuert.

Du kannst mich mal! and Leck mich am Arsch!
These are both translated as Sod you! in dict.leo.org, but that's a British translation... I think they're about equivalent to F*** you!

That's all I got right now.

Alright, as a German native I would say that you are quite good ;-)

Well, despite some little naunces (I won't bother you with them right now) everything you said is right. You picked the rough ones though.

Here are few weaker ones:

- Ich glaub's nicht... -> I can't believe it!
- Raff' Dich mal! -> Pull yourself together! (this is a pretty new one, mainly used by teenagers)
- Scheiße! -> Shit! (You just can't live without that one)

And here two little Swabian specialties:

- Rutsch mir doch den Buckel runter! -> roughly translated something like: kiss my ass!
- Heilig's Blechle! -> Oh my Gosh!

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