Favorite "non-English" phrases?

[maiforpeace]

my mom use to say "budala, odi vrit"

means "idiot, go up in your ass". :parrot: :parrot:

You used the wrong smiley for that - shouldn't it be a gerbil?

[Coito ergo sum]

Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-lagunga.

It's what the Dalai Lama said to me. It means that on my death bed, I will receive total consciousness. So, I have that going for me, which is nice.

[kiki5711]

my mom use to say "budala, odi vrit"

means "idiot, go up in your ass". :parrot: :parrot:

You used the wrong smiley for that - shouldn't it be a gerbil?

also when someone sneazed instead of bless you she would say "vrit nos" means "stick your nose up your ass"



now that I look back, why did she have all these saying that have something to do with the "ass"?

[mistermack]

We once had had a very straight-laced french woman teacher sharing our house, and we got her drunk one night and made her teach us french swear words.
I asked her "what is the very worst thing you can say to a french girl?" and she said :
"tu scentes les moules" ( you smell of mussles ), then she panicked and said "but you must never ever say it!!".

So we set it to music to the tune of "Chanson D'Amour". It went really well. She regretted telling us that for ever after.
.

[Svartalf]

Donnerwetter is one I use as wel.

And "Verdammt noch mahl" .

Vor some reason, I do use "verdammt" (usually as an expletive rather than as a more correct qualificative), but "Donnerwetter" comes to the mouth only when I'm in a phase where I'm particularly interested in Germanic mythology (that is, significantly more than usual)

[Svartalf]

my mom use to say "budala, odi vrit"

means "idiot, go up in your ass". :parrot: :parrot:

In what language?

[Svartalf]

We once had had a very straight-laced french woman teacher sharing our house, and we got her drunk one night and made her teach us french swear words.
I asked her "what is the very worst thing you can say to a french girl?" and she said :
"tu scentes les moules" ( you smell of mussles ), then she panicked and said "but you must never ever say it!!".

So we set it to music to the tune of "Chanson D'Amour". It went really well. She regretted telling us that for ever after.
.

You understand that this is absolutely not crude language per se, but an unforgivable insult to her sense of hygiene.

[DRSB]

kiki5711 wrote:my mom use to say "budala, odi vrit"

means "idiot, go up in your ass". :parrot: :parrot:


In what language?

In Serbo-Kroat, I guess. "Budala" is also Bulgarian for dumbhead. I guess the word is of Turkish origin.

[Svartalf]

Funny enough, once I had the language, I had enough meat to discover that it's not Actually Turkish, but only came through them as a loan from Arabic...
Then again, if I hadn't stumbled on it, I'd have thought it was natively Slavic.

[Berthold]

I always got a kick out of the German "Donnerwetter". Directly translated it means thunder weather, but it is used as an exclamation comparable to "damn" or "shit".

Not quite: It basically means surprise, which can also be appreciative.

[Hermit]

I always got a kick out of the German "Donnerwetter". Directly translated it means thunder weather, but it is used as an exclamation comparable to "damn" or "shit".

Not quite: It basically means surprise, which can also be appreciative.

Donnerwetter! Ich habe nicht erwartet das jemand auf sowas deuten wird. Gut gemacht.

[Dries van Tonder]

O bua masepa!!!!!

[Svartalf]

speak white

[Dries van Tonder]

speak white

Setswana: You're talking shit!

[Svartalf]

Hey, I'm French, I got a free pass to do just that