Just had a completely random thought.
In my language, if someone is talking nonsense, we tell them (literally translated) "You're shitting door handles."
I guess it's just my brain trying to lighten today's mood.
Discussion
what is the word in your language?
in serbian they say "ne seri" which means "don't shit"
"Sereš kvake."
"Ne seri" se koristi u sličnom kontekstu. 😉
ah hahaha
my favourite bulgarian expression is "bastun" бастън
it means "walking stick"
Is it used for anything other than to mean "walking stick"?
haha yes, it means someone acting wierd or shy
basically, idiot, in english we'd say they were being retarded
Not exactly, we have words for these, actually many synonyms. There are nuances, when it comes to insults, we have hundreds of words. On top of that different regions of the country have their own. Insults are a national sport so a lot of thought has been put into them to be perfectly crafted for every occasion so it actually cuts deeper, not only scratch the surface.
Slavic insults FTW!
yes, sorry, it means idiot
бастун*
благодаря, аз съм чужденец
man i forgot how hard standard cyrillic is to read as it is especially with all the serifs, i had to zoom my screen to make sure the last "ts" was actually what i thought i typed
i mean, N, I, Ts, so damn close visually... i much prefer gothic cyrillic fonts, far easier to read... and serifs are actually archaic shit from the days of the old printing press to accentuate the corners of the letters, they often didn't actually print that strong but at least were rectilinear
Haha, you are right, never even thought of it, the only issue I ever had was when learning latin alphabet at 7-8 when I always had to think before writing N instead of И
yeah... i'm a huge fan of the cyrillic lower case alphabet btw... i was like, woo, reverse lowercase S, it's so pretty... oh yeah, G... and in latin languages in the old days it was like that but looped with thin lines... made me very happy learning how to write it, it's pretty
i'm definitely a lower case maxi, far easier to read, no matter what alphabet (with cases)
I belong to the first generation that didn't learn cyrillic in our country. I was actually looking forward to learning it, but never got around to it later in life.
But I can read the Greek alphabet (although I can't understand the words). Learned it at college because we were basically using all of it in physics, maths, etc.