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A strange one. Could anyone supply me with foreign words for"quite terrible" or similar derogatory expression..

In a language which no ordinary Brit can make head nor tail of. (thinking Russian or similar - my machine won;t type Chinese writings).

Happy days

Three people having sex is a threesome;
Two people having sex is a twosome.
I.m on my own these days. why do people keep calling me handsome?

???????? ??????

dovol'no uzhasno

"quite terrible" in Russian

Like joke joke........... :-D :-D

Edit........the first line was supposed to be Russian letters.

zift, In'al yomak

try that down the Edgware Road, take yr running shoes

if it does not meet yr requirements we have worse

:-D

Keep em coming. The second sounds a bit rude - which won't suit my purpose otherwise very good.(is it rude)

Pretty good Mr M - thanks to you both

Happy days

yn hynod o ofnadwy (Welsh) :-)

quelle horreur!!

struth!!!

minging!!

ych y fi

Welsh - pronounced ucka vee - means disgusting generally - think I've spelt it correctly

quite terrible is…
eithaf ofnadwy. in Chinese
kuite terrible in Croatian
????? ???????? in Bulgarian
ko?t? te???ß?e in Greek
ganska fruktansvärda in Swedish

Glaswegian.............. sh!te


lolol

I was thinking "eitha ofnadw" (or, to be more grammatical) eithaf ofnadwy) was a good translation, TBK. But I prefer "yn ddychrynllyd o ofnadwy" and "hynod o ofnadwy" to communicate the point of "quite" terrible in Mandarin.

Ychafi was my mum's favourite expression. It would be used regularly in my presence when I was a child. She was Chinese ;-)

Thanks for those latest replies. Some good suggestions. i like the Chinese ones best from Black Knight and John.(plus the Swedish one)

The others are good, but it is to go on the back of my next poetry book, so basically i wanted an expression that virtually nobody would understand - thus knocking out the Welsh and the French,

Best wishes to you all.

Happy days

Go leor uafásach.

Póg mo thóin.

And the same to you Dermot whatever they mean. I have decided to go for the Swedish one, but thanks to all who have shown an interest.

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Trust Dermot to be fluent in Swahili :-) ;-) My favourite Swahilian expression is céad míle fáilte

Dermot - I know this is off topic but your post suggesting póg mo thóin, reminded me of a story my dad told me about when Earl Mountbatten visited Rosyth Dockyard in the early 1950's.

Shortly after his flagship docked he contacted the signals office demanding to know what the delay was in getting a shore line connected. My father was one of the signal staff on duty that day, and it appears that Mountbatten angrily ended the call to the signals office only to appear in person 20 minutes later at the signal office demanding to speak to the Teuchter who wanted to kiss his ????, apparently my dad's mate had told Mountbatten to go póg mo thóin :-D

LOL, I didn't know the correct spelling of that Dermot, But I recall being around 9 or 10 years old when a Catholic classmate told me what kiss my ars in gaelic (Irish) was...........pock ma hon .

Bob
Nothing like growing up in a religious family, is there?

Dermot didn't know you spoke Gaelic like we do up here lol

Florence
on the hebrides