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Derogatory terms for Usonians in your native languages? (hexbear.net)
submitted 10 months ago by Erika3sis@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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With the Norwegian government recently deciding to massively increase the US military presence in this country, I just really want to have some derogatory way of referring to Usonians in the Norwegian language. The problem is that I cannot find any good word for this: existing words fall short; foreign words I'm familiar with either don't translate well, or don't sound good when loaned, or aren't easily understood; and I'm having a hard time coming up with a brand new word to fill this gap myself.

I'm hoping that by asking here that I might be able to find some inspiration, or perhaps even be enlightened about a Norwegian-language term that I didn't know before.

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[–] thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago (4 children)

seppo: septic tank; yank

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"Seppo" is my favorite when speaking English, it felt kinda weird to use at first because it looks vaguely Japanese or Finnish (indeed Seppo is a Finnish name and {説法|せっぽう} means "preaching") but I quickly grew fond of the word.

[–] oregoncom@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

oh shit there's a furigana markdown for lemmy.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

Also great for {汉语拼音|hàn yǔ pīn yīn}

[–] davel@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

{ anakin-padme-3 | anakin-padme-1 } { anakin-padme-4 | anakin-padme-2 }

And it works with emojis!

[–] davel@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

It doesn’t seem to work for me:

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

That's weird I see 4

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago

Oh, weird. Looks like a Chrome/Firefox quirk. It works in Chromium, but I just checked in Firefox and got the same result that you did.

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago

AYO WHAT THE FUCK

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

Rhyming slang is for some reason so funny to me.

{Apples and pears| stairs }

{Dead horse| tomato sauce }

[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

I'll add Americ***s with the c word in the place of the asterices. I've never actually said seppo out loud, but I say yank/yankee all the time.

[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago

Both often full of shit

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

Septic is totally my favorite.