Friday lulz -- Curse in foreign languages!

[luvdovz.livejournal.com]

OK bichiz, we've all found ourselves in a situation where we want to reach through the screen and fucking punch the other guy in the fucking face through the fucking Internetz! CONFESS NOW! You've felt that too! YOU, yeah, there! I'm looking at you, that's right!

Yeah, but can you do that in another language!? Or languages? Hey, that'd be so friggin tough. Or not. Because, as we all know, the very first thing you ever learn from a new language is the shitty words, ain't that true for fuck's sake!?

So go ahead slackers, punch the other sonofabitch right there with your sophisticated foreign-sounding idiots... eeeh I mean idioms!

The challenge, should you accept is, is to double down on the previous commenter. This is your chance. Let's make it one long string of foreign insults! Ready, steady, go!

Initiating the stinking string of slurs with one that comes right out of the cursing studybooks of one of the most colorful languages, Serbian:

Comments

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

It's probably the only language where the superlative degree ("most") could sometimes be weaker than the comparative degree ("more"). Eample:

"I'm most sleepy right now, but I'm more into having sex". (literal translation)
It means I'm feeling sleepy but still I'd prefer to have sex right now.

And it's one of the few languages where a double "No" could mean "Yes". Example:

"I'm always honest".
"Yeah yeah".
Meaning No you're not.

Body language is also part of the game. Everybody else nods in agreement and shakes head in denial; Balkanites do the exact opposite, which always confuses the foreigner ;-)

http://www.overseasdigest.com/odsamples/balkans.html

[blue-mangos.livejournal.com]

heh, one day in Athens walking back to the hotel I had to use the washroom so I asked one of the greeters outside a restaurant if I could use theirs and he shook his head. I was all disappointed as I really needed it (little girl bladder) and it turned out he meant yes. Pani was laughing behind me because he knew what it meant.

[peamasii.livejournal.com]

The head shake thing is the most difficult thing to adjust to. How can someone ffs take a lateral shake for a positive answer and a nod for a no! Does this wtfeckary also go on in Greece or Turkey?

[htpcl.livejournal.com]

(Shakes head).

:-)

Actually there are two ways of head-shaking (and I exclude the headbanging). One is from side to side, which is the usual No. The other is the Indian way, which is more like our Yes. They call it the bobble (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cILXQhyGOQ).