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Yeah, "Fick deine Mutter" is actually something you would hear in German, especially from a character like that. It would generally be considered one of the mor
by pluma 11y ago
Yeah, "Fick deine Mutter" is actually something you would hear in German, especially from a character like that. It would generally be considered one of the more unsophisticated insults, though -- it's associated with the German equivalent of British "chavs".
"Mutterficker" OTOH just doesn't sit right. If you're going to insult someone's mother, just call them "Hurensohn" (i.e. call their mother a prostitute).
Fun fact: "Hurenkind" is also a technical term (though these days the far less offensive "Witwe" translated from the English "widow" is often used) to describe a paragraph with its final line cut off from the page. The line itself on the next page is called "Schusterjunge" (or "Waise", from "orphan") -- "cobbler's boy".
- david-given 11y agoAs a complete tangent, one of things I'm finding hardest about German is when a word in English will have more than one meaning --- like, as you say, widows and orphans do --- and then I'll find that the equivalent word in German, even if entirely different, will have the same set of meanings. It's amazingly hard to remember. Also, I'm totally going to have to find my own copy of Deutsch für den Ausländer.
- pluma 11y agoI'd have thought that it's far more troublesome when the German equivalent merely has a subset of the same meanings but completely different meanings too (e.g. the English term for A has additional meanings B and C but not D while the German equivalent for A has additional meanings B and D but not C).