Apr 4, 2003 15:58
21 yrs ago
German term

Betonscheißer - insult

German to English Art/Literary
Brick heads?
A list of insults in this play ...

Furzdonnerwetter! Diese Betonscheißer. Doppelnullen. Diese krummbeinigen
Kartoffeljongleure. Erbsenzähler. Diese Kleinkünstler. Schmierkomödianten. Diese
Mumienschänder... Diese Kaffeesatzpropheten. Diese Vorgartenzwerge. Diese Bankrotteure! Hast du gestern Nachrichten gehört?

Proposed translations

+1
16 hrs
Selected

uptight hard-asses

or
pains in the ass!
Peer comment(s):

agree Sergey Strakhov
1 hr
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Again ... same thanks as before!! :) Like the sound of uptight hard-asses ... Hello Everyone! Thanks for bearing with me! With all the insults. Hope you enjoyed yourselves just a little bit too. I DID look into numerous slang dictionaries and at websites, but usually they weren’t very creative, or else outdated, or else just TOO wacky. So I thought I would ask all of you. I realize that there were quite a few of them, and also that most of them should not be translated literally. SO … big big thanks for all your *helpful help* … Wish I could give out more points, lots of great suggestions … Thanks again! Gunilla "
+2
0 min

those concrete shitters

ugh
Peer comment(s):

agree Edhild : wouldn't that be bricks?
58 mins
thanks, another version (if you want to put it in, be my guest...)
agree Fantutti (X)
6 hrs
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11 mins

Not for grading:

Maybe this would be the useful source:
The Alternative German Dictionary
you could find it here:

www.notam02.no/~hcholm/altlang/ht/German.html

But I doubt whether you can find such ornate insults you have listed even there :)))

Good luck!

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Note added at 2003-04-04 16:17:26 (GMT)
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or something else \"A Word of Insult for Every Day\" :))
unfortunately without an English translation

http://www.beepworld.de/members42/sunshine_88/schimpfwoerter...
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17 mins

sluts

not as ornate but
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+1
21 mins

shitheads

Another suggestion!
Peer comment(s):

agree Ron Stelter
1 day 4 hrs
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+1
2 hrs

shit-brain

meaning a complete idiot
sorry for the s-word :)
Peer comment(s):

agree TonyTK
3 hrs
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-1
7 hrs

constipated shitheads

might get the idea across, and avoid the concrete.
Peer comment(s):

disagree mbrunet : bullshit
3 hrs
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11 hrs

shitters of bricks

German is such a marvelously feces-oriented language. English simply cannot compete with German here and so all of these phrases 'Scheiss'-phrased (I like 'Korinthscheisser in particular) are impossible to translate literally. I propose the above simply because I like its sound.
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