@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 year agoWhat is your favorite insult in your native language that doesn't exist or cant be directly translated in English?message-square330fedilinkarrow-up1455arrow-down112file-text
arrow-up1443arrow-down1message-squareWhat is your favorite insult in your native language that doesn't exist or cant be directly translated in English?@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square330fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink35•edit-21 year agoIn Germany we have the saying: “Herr lass Hirn regnen. Oder Backsteine. Egal Hauptsache du triffst!” Which roughly translates to: “lord let it rain brains or bricks. Doesn’t matter as long as it hits”
minus-squareIron Lynxlink2•1 year agoI’m pretty sure Backsteine translates to bricks in general, am I right? On my side of the border, a baksteen is a brick.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 year agoYes of course you’re right, let’s just pretend that my brain didn’t just stop processing language correctly 😁
In Germany we have the saying: “Herr lass Hirn regnen. Oder Backsteine. Egal Hauptsache du triffst!”
Which roughly translates to: “lord let it rain brains or bricks. Doesn’t matter as long as it hits”
I’m pretty sure Backsteine translates to bricks in general, am I right? On my side of the border, a baksteen is a brick.
Yes of course you’re right, let’s just pretend that my brain didn’t just stop processing language correctly 😁