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Re: “Zero fucks given” in other languages

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Post by hamstergene »

konart wrote: post #2

>It’s horseradish to me (Russian) Well, that's a one way to say it for sure, but that's almost the most delicate way, lol.

That's a completely effortless translation.

I am pretty sure that "мне по хрену" is a parody on "мне по плечу" (literally "fits my shoulder" but means "doable to me / within my powers"). Russian people coin new expressions with such witticisms all the time.

So, reproducing the same parody in English, one could say "fits my wiener". Horseradish here being an obscenity-avoiding euphemism for c*ck (like English "wiener"), not the plant (just like all the sausages and cucumbers in the other languages).

Re: “Zero fucks given” in other languages

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Post by xfennec »

azinman2 wrote: post #85
seszett wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are just a lot of different ways to say it, and although this one isn't very popular most people would still get the meaning fine and it does have some attested use, so I think it has its place in such a list. My own personal favorite would be (it's very inelegantly translated) it touches one [of my testicles] without making the other move (maybe invented by former president Chirac, at least made popular by him…

What is it in French?

"Ça m'en touche une sans faire bouger l'autre."

Re: “Zero fucks given” in other languages

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Post by jaclaz »

riffraff wrote: post #67
jaclaz wrote: post #54

Being Italian, I find queer that I never heard anything even similar to the two cited sayings: >I will talk about it with my horse (Italian) >I don’t give a cabbage (Italy) EDIT: Ok, correction, the second one, as "I don't care a cabbage" is fine.

Might be a regional thing, like most things Italian, being from Lazio I also never heard those.

Yep, in Rome and around it, probably as someone said in another comment, "sticazzi" would be used, though I think that it has a slightly different meaning.

In Tuscany, it would be the "(but) I care (or don't care) a (beautiful) saw"->(ma) (non) m'importa una (bella) sega)

Re: “Zero fucks given” in other languages

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Post by d--b »

tduberne wrote: post #9

> Another French slang expression (also testicle-related) for not giving a fuck is “I’m painting my balls with the brush of indifference” If anyone has an idea of the original in french, I would be interested. I am French and I have no clue what he refers to.

In the same vein, there are lot of variations.

One I heard in the army is “je m’en tamponne le coquillard avec une patte d’alligator femelle”. “I pat my butt with a female alligator’s leg”

In fact when you search google for “je m’en tamponne le coquillard avec”, google will autocomplete with “a lobster’s tibia”, “a morrocan shoe”, etc.

Re: “Zero fucks given” in other languages

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Post by jaclaz »

1_player wrote: post #66
jaclaz wrote: post #54

Being Italian, I find queer that I never heard anything even similar to the two cited sayings: >I will talk about it with my horse (Italian) >I don’t give a cabbage (Italy) EDIT: Ok, correction, the second one, as "I don't care a cabbage" is fine.

"Non me ne frega un cavolo" is pretty common in Northern Italy, though I'd often go for the more vulgar "non me ne frega un cazzo." (I don't care/give a dick) Never heard the one about the horse either.

Ahh, I see, I didn't get the meaning of "give" as "care", now it makes sense.

Re: “Zero fucks given” in other languages

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Post by tunnuz »

riffraff wrote: post #47

As an italian from (near) Rome, I feel offended we're not getting the recognition we deserve for this! The expression for variations of "who cares" would be "Sticazzi" (~= "these dicks") and is a particularly important expression in roman culture! "Not caring" is core to our being, in most bad and good ways :) There's even a short story whose origin I can't recall: When God finished making the world, God was looking…

Slaps knee

Thank you!

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