Singer Miriana Conte told to change title and lyrics owing to suggestive play on Maltese word for ‘singing’
  • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
    151·
    2 days ago

    Meanwhile Israel will participate yet again while committing genocide and ethnic cleansing.

    So remember kids: Murdering, Raping, Torturing and Starving women and girls is okay. Using a word that might sound like it is referring to their private parts, even though the word is just normal in your language, is completely unacceptable.

  • anamethatisnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      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

    • TaTTe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      3 days ago

      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”.

      • anamethatisnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        That sounds reasonable and I can understand the decision.
        theguardian.com only gave us this for context:

        The chorus of Conte’s empowerment anthem contains the phrase “serving kant” – a queer or drag slang phrase roughly meaning “to express boldness”.

    • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      121·
      3 days ago

      That could be a new type of competition, a cuntetition will you say

      1. English: Cunt
      2. French: Merde Connard
      3. German: Scheiße Fotze
      4. Spanish: Cabrón Coño
      5. Italian: Stronzo figa
      6. Dutch: Kut
      7. Swedish: Fitta
      8. Danish: Lort fisse
      9. Norwegian: Drit
      10. Finnish: Paska vittu
      11. Portuguese: Merda
      12. Russian: Хуй (khuy)
      13. Polish: Kurwa
      14. Czech: Hovno
      15. Hungarian: Szar
      16. Greek: Μαλάκας (malakas)
      17. Turkish: Siktir
      18. Romanian: Măgar
      19. Bulgarian: Пикня (piknya)
      20. Slovak: Hovno
      21. Slovenian: Sranje
      22. Croatian: Jebeni
      23. Serbian: Јебати (jebati)
      24. Ukrainian: Хуй (khuy)
      25. Lithuanian: Šūdas
      26. Latvian: Sūds
      27. Estonian: Sitt
      • Dicska@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        46 minutes ago

        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.

      • Suru@mander.xyzEnglish
        10·
        3 days ago

        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.

      • ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        3 days ago

        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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              8·
              3 days ago

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      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        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

    • Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      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!

      • Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        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!

  • sudneo@lemm.eeEnglish
    61·
    3 days ago

    Kant song costs Kant singer her can’t sing. [Semicit.]