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[–] 110 points 1 year ago (7 children)

As an Arabic speaker I have never heard of number 3, though Arabic is more like forty languages in a trench coat so that's not saying much.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Arabic is more like forty languages in a trench coat

    It has so much in common with English

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Even the English one is from the 1950s, there's so many more phrases used these days that are highly regionally dependent, not even just an American English vs British English but different cities will sometimes have their own preferences.

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  • [+] 148 points 1 year ago (23 children)
  • [–] 74 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Why are you leaving us hanging? (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

    What would be a more accurate phrase?

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  • [+] 43 points 1 year ago (9 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Might I suggest: Tebya ne trakhnut, tak chto ne verti zadnitsey

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Do I need to flip another table and make @Lazycog@sopuli.xyz sad or are you gonna tell us what that would roughly translate to?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    French one is actually mostly correct, but the expression is not used that much

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I use it very often. It might be a region thing. I am from the north.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm from Lorraine; we use it quite often.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    Explanation for the french one : onion is an old slang for anus. So "mind your own onions" is an old-fashioned way to say "mind your own ass"

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Except it's plural, and I only have 1 anus.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    In Denmark, the youngsters have recently been saying "spurgt?" which translates to "asked?" - as in "were you asked?". Somehow the brevity and linguistic lazyness makes it even more infuriating.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Sounds almost as irritating as "OK boomer". Which I have to say is especially irritating to be on the receiving end of since I'm not a boomer.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [+] -9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Definitions exist for a reason. You don't just decide something is something else and it's age racist as fuck.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Language evolves, the meaning of words change. It's a natural part of the evolution of language over time. You say hang up the phone or dial a phone number, don't you? But you don't literally hang up a phone when you're done with it or turn a literal dial anymore. But they used to work that way, so we still use that language even though the original meaning is lost.

    I would argue that although this phrase originated from dismissing the opinions of actual boomers, it's become a convenient shorthand way of calling someone out of touch with current social trends without having to adapt new phrases every time a new generation takes the place of the boomers as being out of touch.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Not the same if it's a subset of people and the direction is negative. Not cool.

    You want future generations attaching negatives on a subset like "trans" or "queer", poisoning their history?

    Definitions of people should only contain those people, nothing else, period. Haven't we already learned this from history?

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Don't invite trolls.

    Millenials like nothing better than call everyone their grandparents and put nasty labels on their grandmoms and granddads.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Millennial are in their 30s and 40s, half the time theyre on the receiving end of OK Boomer.

    IMO its great to be able to say "your lack of experience with the world as it exists now, and not 20+ years ago has left you unable and unwilling to understand. I am giving up trying to help you learn" in just 2 words

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That's not a common British expression, at least, perhaps someone says it.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It was fairly common in the US decades ago, but you don't hear it as much now. You're more likely to hear it with "business" instead of "beeswax" when you do.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Business is the original idiom and it didn't originally mean "stay out of mine." It originally meant to should make your own prosperity your primary focus. A similar modern phase that would capture what it originally meant might be "Keep hustlin."

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    Apparently the Argentine equivalent is something like “take your hat off, you’re not in this photo”

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    English also has, "stay in your lane."

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Russian here. I've never heard this phrase in my life before. Maybe it's local, but definitely not common.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've always been partial to "This is an A -- B conversation, so C your way out."

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    First time seeing this. Much more common one is "тебя ебать не должно" or a version without swearing: "не суй свой нос в чужие дела*

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "First time seeing this. Much more common one is "you shouldn't give a fuck" or a version without swearing: "don't stick your nose into other people's business*"

    Is that an accurate translation? If so... Very similar to sayings in the U.S.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    don't stick your nose into other people's business

    That's a slightly different expression than "mind your beeswax". I was thinking there's no equivalent in Romanian, "mind your business" is already simple and direct, and you can replace "business" with something context-relevant. But for "don't stick your nose into other people's business" there are multiple equivalent expressions: "don't come in where your pot is not boiling", "don't come in like a fly in milk", and I'm sure there are others I'm forgetting now.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    As native Russian speaker, this is terribly rarely used in this full format (and it's one among many), but genuine, I've heard it IRL.

    "Тебя не ебёт, так не подмахивай"

    This is highly and universally derogatory, you could expect to hear it from lowlife/criminal, which, unfortunately, is what most russians are lately, though. For russian nazi population, this implies that you are gay or a slut, depending on biological sex, and that's close to your life worth nothing. For the rest, this is just something nazies would say to insult you.

    The first part alone, though, is quite socially acceptable and overused. I guess, because it's lost the whole lore behind it, and showing your knowledge of whence it came from kind of reveals that it's not just an empty word, but you mean it.

    I'm a bit hyperfocused on swearing, am I? Was one of my childhood's special interests.

    Honestly, "mind your beeswax" is also a rare gem, but not quite so rare.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    In Taiwan it's “關你屁事“

    Which is mildly translated to "Care about your fart situation"

    This is pretty derogatory. I wouldn't use it unless it's with your friends messing around.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Qué te importa. Come torta. Con tu hermana la gordota.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Depends on the region. In my native it was popular to say ебало завали, which loosely translates into "collapse your mouth" where mouth is used in a sense where it's an organ for penetration during sex.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The Scouse British dialect has a nice term for this: "Geg out". As opposed to "Fred is gegging in", used when someone is trying to implicate themselves or become part of the group/conversation.
    Someone involving themselves when they shouldn't be? Two syllables: Geg. Out.
    No idea where it comes from but I heard it a lot in my youth. Forsomereason.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    I will wiggle by ass on the camel & make signals with my candle whilst lubricating my onions with beeswax for you to fuck as I please, ok?!?!!

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    (Ireland) Wind yer neck in

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Mexico very similar to chile : "no tienes vela en el entierro".. English: you do t have a candle in this burial".

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    "Quien te dió vela en este entierro?", en Argentina. Se puede asumir que es algo de hispanoamerica al menos. Also, maybe it's better to translate it like "you don't have a candle in this funeral" maybe? I don't know if english speaking people hold a vigil for the dead like we do. Burial while is a more direct translation, I don't think it really represents the spirit of the adage.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Chilean Spanish? that's just a common Spanish saying

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I'm from Chile and I have never heard of that one. But a lot of: y a voh, ¿quien te movió la jaula, culiao?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Como nunca hay escuchao "y quién te dió velas en este entierro?"

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Te juro que no, pero si el "y a voh, quien te dio ficha?"

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Puta que saltó lejos el maní

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sorry, "whore that jumped far from peanuts"?!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Hahaha, yeah that's the literal translation of what I said.

    So to break it down: Puta - curse word, means literally prostitute, is used as an exclamation of amusement or exhaustion at a situation by itself - kinda like saying "god damn"

    Salto lejos el maní - literally the peanut jumped far. Used in the same way as all the other idioms here to say mind your own business or keep it to yourself.

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