Favorite "non-English" phrases?

[AshtonBlack]

Plimpplampplettere: Dutch for skimming stones.

I don't know who told you that but that is a made up word.

See the link above.

I bow to your linguistic skills, Leo.

[leo-rcc]

Plimpplampplettere: Dutch for skimming stones.

I don't know who told you that but that is a made up word.

See the link above.

I bow to your linguistic skills, Leo.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/language ... 02500.html

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Plimpplampplettere: Dutch for skimming stones.

I don't know who told you that but that is a made up word.

See the link above.

I bow to your linguistic skills, Leo.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/language ... 02500.html

No fake words!

(Okay, maybe a few. )

[AshtonBlack]

Plimpplampplettere: Dutch for skimming stones.

I don't know who told you that but that is a made up word.

See the link above.

I bow to your linguistic skills, Leo.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/language ... 02500.html

Fair enough.

[Rum]

Having grown up in Hong Kong I used to speak fluent Cantonese..somewhat rusty these days - but I remember the swearing very well! (the following is more or less phonetic)

lei gon mat lan ye a? = What the fuck are you talking about!

Swearing in Cantonese is fucking brilliant!

Talking of which LofuJi hasn't been around of late.

[virphen]

Mentulum cacat!

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

I shit on your prick!

A rather amusing insult in Latin.

[Svartalf]

Merdé!

Funny... for my own use (I'm French), I prefer a term that I spell "schlach", (pronounce it like it were German) ... there are serious odds it's somehow derived from actual German "Arsch Loch" (ass hole), though I use it as a swear word when angry, not as an insult, and am not even sure I knew that particular piece of german vulgarity at the time I came up with it.

[Reverend Blair]

"Awiss Awass." In Cree it translates more or less as "come here, go away," but it gets used like "fuck off," usually in a non-serious way.

[leo-rcc]

"Sodemieter op man". Has multiple uses, one meaning "Get the fuck away from me", another is a statement of disbelief.

[klr]

Mentulum cacat!

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

I shit on your prick!

A rather amusing insult in Latin.

For all manner of latin phrases (kosher or not) see:

http://www.yuni.com/library/latin.html

[klr]

I like pour encourager les autres (for the encouragement of others) because anything involving shooting an admiral is cool in my book.

One of my favourites as well.

Oh, and remember: caveat emptor ...

[leo-rcc]

Ad infinitum et ultra!

[colubridae]

"Es kommt wieder hoch, der zwieback von der kindertaufe."

German (apologies for speelllink)


I threw up my christening biscuits.

???

[klr]

Secula seculorum ... a handy occasional alternative to "yada yada ...", etc.

[colubridae]

I worked in a multi-national for a while

We taught each other the worst swear/curses we knew in each others language...

One froggy guy said that this was a really really bad curse in frog

"putain de bordelle de merde"

Prostitute of a brothel of shit.

I would love to see the quizzical looks on the terraces..
"oi terry! you're a Prostitute of a brothel of shit.




I translated it through google and got:-
"fucking goddamit"
Think i prefer "Prostitute of a brothel of shit."



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