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The dutch one is better translated as “I’ll let it rust my crack” (as in buttcrack) rather than anus. It comes from the fact that we also used to use the word
by jauco 5y ago
The dutch one is better translated as “I’ll let it rust my crack” (as in buttcrack) rather than anus.
It comes from the fact that we also used to use the word crack for “railtrack embedded in the pavement” as used by trams (streetcars). To let the crack oxidize is to not do proper upkeep on that section of the track.
Though no one uses crack to refer to railway track anymore. So the translation is definitely the connotation that modern day dutch speakers would hear.
- Beldin 5y agoAs a modern day dutch speaker: can confirm the connotation. Never heard about this alternative use of "reet" before. As an aside, in Dutch, this alliterates ("rust" is "roest" in dutch). As an aside aside, the expression is passive in Dutch. A more direct translation would be "that can rust to me arse". The "to" there is also weird in Dutch ("aan").
- tromp 5y ago“I’ll let it rust my rectum” alliterates even more (although technically the rectum is the last part of the intestine)...
- pdpi 5y agoHuh. “Reet” sounds like it should share a root with “rut” in English.
- jeroenhd 5y agoIt doesn't appear so, at least according to Wiktionary. The word supposedly comes from some kind of past tense of "rijten" meaning "to rip, tear". "Reet" comes from "rete" which means "split". This is the furthest back the Wiktionary entry goes: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hr%C4%ABtan%C4%85 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic... As for English "rut", that word comes from Middle French "route", ultimately leading back to a Romanic origin which funnily enough also has a meaning related to "to break, tear" (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/Hrun%C3%A9pti https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...). So, although the two are not directly related, their origins are surprisingly close to each other.
- pdpi 5y agoThanks! A great example of why "should share a root" doesn't mean "does share a root" :)
- De_Delph 5y agoI for one use the 'het zal mij aan mijn anus oxideren' as a more chique version of the 'aan mijn reet roesten'.
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- skerit 5y agoThat's amazing, I have never ever heard that sentence before. And we from Flanders know a lot of Netherlands-Dutch sayings.
- 317070 5y agoI'm Flemish and I use it a lot, actually. "Dat kan mijn reet roesten.", it has a great ring to it.
- WelcomeShorty 5y agoCorrection: Kan me AAN me reet roesten. At least in Amsterdam we use the expression like this.
- wartijn_ 5y agoCorrection: m'n reet. Although many people will use "me" here, that is definitely incorrect. And although I too only know the expression with the word "aan" in it, the translation by jauco at the start of this thread seems to suggest they also use it without that word.
- koonsolo 5y agoI'm from the Antwerp region, and also never heard of that expression. What is actually the Flemish expression for this? "Den boom in" (=up the tree) is the closed one I could find.
- kmm 5y ago"Het kan me niet bommen" maybe? "Bommen"[0] apparently being an otherwise completely unused verb meaning "to strike something giving a hollow sound". 0: https://etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/bommen https://etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/bommen
- 317070 5y ago"Kan me geen kloten schelen" is what I would imagine is the closest to the intent of the article. In West-Flanders, we would also say: "'t Is 't klappen nie weird."
- tgv 5y agoSpanish translation is also a bit shoddy: "Me importa un pepino" translates to "it matters/means as much to me as a cucumber". It's probably been translated that way to give it the same punch. The saying is also used with comino (a cumin seed), pimiento (a pepper), rabano (a radish), all rather vegetarian, and culo (ass), and possibly other regional variants. The "reet" in the Dutch expression of course also returns in "dat interesseert me geen ene reet".