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I'm fairly sure that's not right. If listening to Metal has taught me anything, Perkele is a Pagan god/the Christian devil. I suspect the EU legal texts that Go
by pmjordan 13y ago
I'm fairly sure that's not right. If listening to Metal has taught me anything, Perkele is a Pagan god/the Christian devil. I suspect the EU legal texts that Google uses to train its translator don't use the phrase very frequently, and some other translation substituted a curse of similar magnitude, rather than a literal translation. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkele http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkele
Maybe someone who actually speaks Finnish can enlighten us.
- Sharlin 13y agoI'm a Finn. "Perkele" is the archetypal Finnish swearword that's pretty much untranslatable without losing most of its power. "Fucking" seems too mild - perhaps "motherfucking" has some of the same weight behind it. It's not that "perkele" is particularly vulgar - those hard consonants P, R and K just carry some heavy emphasis. "Vittupää" literally translated means "cunthead". "Vittu" is the most vulgar term in general use for referring to a vulva or a vagina - it is, however, more often used as a generic interjection with most of the semantics and versatility of "fuck".