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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Shouldn't UK or at least England be "arse" and not "ass"?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's a total fuck up.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Asal in Ireland means the donkey sort of ass not the ass sort of ass!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Like the Dutch "ezel" (which is the same word used in Dutch for painting-supporters which in English are called "easel").

[–] Peppycito 9 points 1 year ago

That's funny, in art school we used a bench with a back that we called 'donkeys'

[–] mindbleach 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sounded silly until I remembered English has "sawhorse."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

At least the sawhorse resembles a horse :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should be "tón" or something

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tóin is arse. Tón is tone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You're right and I can't spell, is tusa an fíorshaoi de na dtóinenna.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] MrScottyTay 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's this meant to be ass as in your rear end? Or like a donkey? If it's the former the UK is actually arse. Ass is north American

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is not a 100% accurate. I guess it is based on some translation tool. Arabic word used is standard Arabic which is very polite. Dialects use other words depending on the degree of vulgarity. Many countries have the same different words to describe the same. Think of it like ass, rear and bottom.

[–] MrScottyTay 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What I'm getting at is though that no-one I know in the UK (unless they "terminally" consume North American content) says "ass" unironically. They say "arse".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which means the chart is not accurate.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All the translations are for rear end so

[–] MrScottyTay 2 points 1 year ago

So it should be "Arse"

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Portugal uses "rabo" or "cu". "Bunda" is more a Portuguese Brazilian thing.

It has some differences like UK English and US English.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

And "ass" is American.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Exatamente. “Traseiro” é uma alternativa adequada

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that where bunda in the uk as slang for ass comes from?

[–] Noel_Skum 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Same word. More a Brazilian thing I believe - unless there’s some Portuguese who know better and can correct me.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Ahem ahemmmm hexcuse me, we speak English in the UK, not Murikan.

It's Arse, not Ass.

:-P

[–] mikey 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In Hungarian it says "segglyuk", but that means "asshole". It should be "segg" to match "ass".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Segg like in rendőrségg ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hm, I wonder if that’s related to German “Loch,” with the same meaning?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Of course the only one they fuck up is hungarian... they got swedish, italian and spanish right from what i know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It would be arse right?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Austrian here:

It is refereed to as “oasch” almost everywhere in Austria instead of “arsch”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Kont in Dutch - English's closest major relative - is very interesting.

Presumably it's cognate with cunt, which reminds me of the different meanings of fanny in UK/US English.

Also Finnish and Estonian both with perse - cool, they're both Uralic so that makes sense. And just below them dirsa seems so similar, despite Latvian being Indo-European. But then along comes their Uralic buddy Hungarian with the utterly dissimilar segglyuk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would be gat in flemish dutch tbh. Not kont

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Is this the famous κωλος of Rhodes ?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Zoomers: GYAT

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Prochi (პროჭი) in Georgian means asshole specifically, it should say traki (ტრაკი) for ass

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The Arabic "muakhirah" means something like "the behind". Funny enough, it shares some roots with the word "muta'akhir" which means "being late" and "akhir" which means "the latest". It's polite and used even in some dialects to just refer politely to it. Every dialect though has other specific words that are more vulgar. Some are different in every country. Egyptians would use "Tiz" to refer to it and Moroccans would use the more vulgar "Zok". Middle Eastern countries also often use "Tiz".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In Norwegian depending on context and where you're from you might say other words like Rumpe, Rass, Rauv, etc. The most polite and normally written one of them is Rumpe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

задник is so hilarious from the perspective of Russian. xD

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Göt is just a beautiful world to say.

[–] BakedGoods 1 points 1 year ago

Just imagining Turkish speakers snickering when visiting Göteborg. Asscastle.

[–] mindbleach 2 points 1 year ago

Oh wow, Top Gear was right.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Why does Norway have a different color than Denmark and Sweden?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

in maltese (the one at the bottom center) it's just "sorm".

"Toqba tas-sorm" means "asshole"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Röv karta, no donkeys :-)

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