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    2. qerel123 on

      wait till he finds out about skurwysyn, literally 3 words crammed into one (and it’s beautiful)

    5. DieM-GieM on

      spierdalaj

      wypierdalaj

      zapierdalaj

      odpierdalaj

      dopierdalaj

      przypierdalaj

      napierdalaj

      popierdalaj

      rozpierdalaj

      podpierdalaj

      odpierdalaj

      wpierdalaj

    6. ChimpieTheOne on

      Polish language does not waste time and is fairly accurate with the wide range of insults and swears we have. There’s at least 10 for every occasion

    7. erect_dragonly on

      The magic recipe is declination. And no this is not something you need to look up in the urban dictionary

    8. zavvim on

      I often speak English with Italians and they also have a problem to translate their swearing worlds because English has like 5 swearing words in total lol.

    9. Beginning-Orange-577 on

      Polish is one of the most creative insult generators ever. Tbh, most of languages are, English is just lame in this.

    10. siryuber on

      Both use 4 syllables (get-the-fuck-out/wy-pier-da-laj), so I could say that both are equal, but I prefer “wypierdalaj” as it’s 100% of vulgarism instead of only 25%.

    11. Murky_Ad5438 on

      Even better, „Dick in polices’ ass” is simplified to just „HWDP” or „Czarna L’ka w kółeczku sie mieni” is „CWKS”

    14. AdFluffy9286 on

      A better question is: Why does English need four words to express a single thing? So basic…

    19. Noriaki_Kakyoin_OwO on

      Unlike the germans which like to boast about their languages having a word for every phrase (which is just the thing you said written as justthethingyousaid) we actually have words like these

    21. Glass_House_39281 on

      It’s less about Polish being unique and more about English being made specifically for simpletons.

      I mean that’s just a verb fused with a prefix which is not even a uniquely slavic things but is present e.g. in germanic languages. But not in English of course

    23. MinecraftWarden06 on

      Jokes aside, it’s pretty fascinating how a single concept can require a few words in one language, and just one in another. For example the phrase “on the battlefield”:

      Spanish: en el campo de batalla

      Estonian: sõjatandril

      This is just a simple example. There are way more extreme cases, for instance in polysynthetic languages, where even a complex sentence can be expressed in a single colossal word.

      Yupik: Tuntussuqatarniksaitengqiggtuq

      English: He had not yet said again that he was going to hunt reindeer