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No kant do: Eurovision bars Malta’s entry over title’s similarity to C-word
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
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With the abundance of languages in the EU I imagine that allows us to find quite many words that are phonetically similar to rude words of other languages.
Wouldn't it be fun to see if it's only the English language that are afforded such privileges of denial?
On the other hand I don't really care what happens in the eurovision song contest.
I'm Maltese and I fully support this. The whole song is in english, except for this one word. And it's used in this particular context, and the word doesn't really make sense in the rest of the sentence. This is definitely a "leopards ate my face" moment
I'd say the issue here is that the rest of the song is in English. It's literally only this one word that is supposedly in Maltese, in the sentence "I do it all the time, serving kant".
That sounds reasonable and I can understand the decision.
theguardian.com only gave us this for context:
That could be a new type of competition, a cuntetition will you say
I don't know the source of this list, but #15 actually means 'shit' (like with several other languages in the comment).
However, I understand it's not easy, because I wouldn't say there is a straight equivalent of it in the language. You could go for 'picsa', but that's often typically used for women, or it's closer in meaning to the english 'bitch'. 'Pöcs' has a similar vibe when used specifically on males, but it's much closer to being 'prick'. Then there's 'köcsög', which has a closer vibe to 'scumbag', but at least not so gender specific. I guess it's situational.
Drit is shit in Norwegian. Fitte is cunt
The Finnish word you have is also just 'shit' and in no way equivalent to 'cunt'. The word youre looking for is 'vittu', although it is usually (mis)translated as 'fuck'. The common translation is likely due to the prevalence of use of both 'fuck' and 'vittu' and their similar severity rather than meaning.
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Russian would be Пизда (pizza). Хуй is male.
The Spanish word Coño is a much more accurate comparison.
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The German Scheiße is most definitely not on the same level here, that would be more like shit.
The more direct equivalent IMHO is Fotze.
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Isn't the Italian one just like stupid/turd/stupid turd?
Maybe 'figa'?
Also all the slav languages translate to either 'shit' or 'fuck', neither of which I would associate with cunt.
Same with Portuguese ('shit').
Greek is just 'wanker'.
And Polish is 'hooker'.
Edit: found this https://www.youswear.com/index.asp?word=CUNT
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The link sports good suggestions for other languages too, usually the first option on the list
Lort means shit in Danish, the word you are looking for is fisse
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Fotze ist so ein schönes Wort <3
Kinda depends on the Fotze being viewed.
One that i hate is from the high german dialects: servus
So many wanna be intelectuals always go like this when you say it: "actually did you know this word means slave, because the romans called their slaves with it and in english it means 'serve us'. So you just called me a slave"
The word "servus" doesnt come from latin and has been in use before the romans infuenced the south germanic tribes!
Do you have a source for that for me to followup? I learned te Latin root as well, but in the historic context of "I'm your servant" as a formal goodbye formula.
I'm aware of the old Germanic sev which could be argued to be the root but ice never seen a linguist or historian actually explain that!
Thanks in advance!