What is your favorite insult in your native language that doesn't exist or cant be directly translated in English?

vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 475 points –

Ill start:

"Me cago en tus muertos" - ill shit all over your dead relatives. Spanish.

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Despite being half Cypriot, I don't speak much Greek. Apologies to actual Greeks who realize how badly I'm butchering my transliterations here; my ancestors would be ashamed. (Most of them would probably just laugh at me though.)

That said, one of the funnier ones that used to go around in my family works like this: You yell for me from across the house. I respond "Di?" ("What?") And you yell again, usually meaning I should come over to wherever you are. Again, I say, "Di?" ("What?") And in exasperation, you respond, "Si kephali su tribidi!" (Your head is full of holes!) with emphasis on the last, matching, syllable as if to say "that's what!"

In Crete I've heard something similar.

-Ti? (What?) -Psoli st' afti! (Dick in the ear!)

I think my grandmother would slap me in the head from beyond the grave if I said that, but that is a good one. XD