• huppakee@piefed.socialEnglish
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      7 months ago

      If i ever use it that’s what i’d say, but i think the original is ‘het kan me aan m’n reet roesten’ (it can rust on my ass). But i agree ass is a better translation than anus.

      Beside this one, Dutch also has an infinite variations of ‘i don’t give a damn/a fuck’ (het kan me geen moer/bout/biet/donder/bal/… schelen) and also we have variations on something similar to the German one (het zal mij een worst wezen) though i’m not sure how to give an accurate translation, something in the along the lines of ‘i wouldn’t care even if it was a sausage’ or more literally ‘it could be a sausage to me’

      Clearly i care to much to keep my mouth shut lol

      • arrow74@lemmy.zip
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        7 months ago

        The “it can oxidize on my anus” translation would be like saying “Naught fornications bequethed” instead of “Zero fucks given”

        • Jerkface@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          “Naught fornications bequethed”

          Regardless, this is how I’m saying it from now on.

          Dons Elizabethan ruff

  • hansolo@lemmy.today
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    7 months ago

    Not really. Greek and various translations across the region: “I write it on my balls.”

    Edit: “To my balls” also works.

  • Spesknight@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    In Italian “Chi se ne frega?” meaning “Who jerks off on it?”. “Me ne frego” (“I jerk off on it”) was something Mussolini used to say.

  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

    We also have an actual german word for that, in addition to the phrases conveying similar meanings:

    Egal.

    Meaning something is irrelevant, does not matter, can be disregarded. So, something i give zero fucks about would be something that ist mir (scheiß)egal. Add swear words to your liking for emphasis.

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      I wonder if that’s from/related to the French “égal,” meaning “equal,” thus “it’s all the same to me.” I see German has its own unrelated word for “equal,” but borrowing another language for cursing purposes is as common as merde, pardon my French.

      • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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        7 months ago

        Very possible, we have an older way of saying “ist mir egal” that is “ist mir gleich”, which means equal. So, something is equal to me, i dont care either way, neither option matters.

  • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.org
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    7 months ago

    Zero fucks given is not exactly the same as “Its sausage to me”. The German sentence “its sausage to me” would be better translated as “I dont care”. Another difference is, that “zero fucks given” can be used to describe other people without explicitly addressing them (example: you and someone else observe someone doing something and you can literally say “zero fucks given” following any action and everyone else will understand that you meant the person you’re observing). This is not possible with “it is sausage to me”. The sentence structure changes completely when you try the same thing with it.

    In theory you can use them in the same situations, but I would say, that “its sausage to me” gets mainly used for describing oneself and not other people.

    • axx@slrpnk.net
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      7 months ago

      Same in French.

      The expression is in fact “I beat my balls of it” (and not with it), which is built on the same sentence construction as multiple ways of saying you don’t care of varying rudeness: I <do something to myself> of it.

      The other commonly use verbs that are so French specific they are hard to translate in themselves (foutre, ficher).

      • yopyop@sh.itjust.works
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        7 months ago

        Je m’en bats les couilles

        Tu t’en bats les couilles

        Il/Elle s’en bat les couilles

        It works fo everyone! Even gender-inclusive, women can also slap their balls against the door 👍

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Anyone who knows Japanese wanna weigh in?

    I know maybe 3 dozen words in Japanese and the best I can do is “Nandemonaiya” which is something like “never mind” but could also maybe be used to say “forget about it”. Japanese is a super polite language though, so “it doesn’t matter” may be about as good as it gets? Also, Japanese tends to throw nouns out to mean a thing is like that noun, like you might call a homebody an “otaku” (house, as in they never leave it) (commonly used to refer to anime fans, as in they stay in all day watching anime) so maybe the word for “shit” or “garbage.” Shit, as in just saying the curse (like “dammit”) would be kuso (usually the vowels are silent, so it just sounds like “hiss” but with a K (but not “Kiss” if that makes any sense). But “kuso” is more like “dammit,” like I said, I wouldn’t use it to say I don’t care, more that I’m annoyed and bothered.

    • loppy@fedia.io
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      7 months ago

      知らない (shiranai) can be a pretty biting way to say you don’t care about something/someone’s situation, but it’s not vulgar. しらねぇ (shiranee) would be a more vulgar way to say the same thing, that’s probably closer. I don’t know if there’s a metaphorical idiomatic phrase like the other languages in the OP.

      For vulgarity in Japanese in general, you should watch this: https://youtu.be/GcjbwkBQeO8