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Derogatory terms for Usonians in your native languages? (hexbear.net)
submitted 7 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 7 months ago (4 children)

seppo: septic tank; yank

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 22 points 7 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 7 months ago (2 children)

oh shit there's a furigana markdown for lemmy.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 14 points 7 months ago

Also great for {汉语拼音|hàn yǔ pīn yīn}

[–] davel@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 7 months ago (3 children)

It doesn’t seem to work for me:

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

That's weird I see 4

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

AYO WHAT THE FUCK

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

Both often full of shit

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago

Septic is totally my favorite.