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prorule (mander.xyz)

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[-] thedudeabides@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 5 months ago

"You son of a prostitute" Most European thing I've heard today

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

Here in Finland we say "the pup of a whore".

Added benefit of being gender-neutral.

[-] thedudeabides@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Gender-neutral insults

Based Finnish

[-] Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 months ago

Fun fact: The German original uses "Dirne" which is a very archaic word, could probably be translated as something like "harlot"

[-] python@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

So a Dirndl is a slutty dress??

[-] Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

I mean - nowadays it sorta is, it's been heavily relegated to sexually fetishised contexts.

But the reason a "Dirndl" is called that is, because "Dirne" is a word that used to mean just "woman" but went through a linguistic evolution to mean "prostitute" quite a while ago. Off the top of my head, I don't know of an example that happened similiarly in English, but I'd guess there's bound to be something like that there, too