• uservoid1@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    According to Google translate:

    Perkele - Evil spirit or a version of “god damn”

    Mene kusemaan muuntajaan - Go pee on the transformer

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      5 days ago

      A Finn once described the … intensity of ‘perkele’ when used as an insult/curse to me, as: ‘it is worse than ‘horseshit’, it is worse than ‘god damn!’, it is like you or it are worse and worth less and more despicable than flaming diarrhea from Satan himself’.

      • TheEmpireStrikesDak@thelemmy.clubOP
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        This was the first time I heard (saw) someone say it to a Finn and I was like wow what the heck just happened?

        This user was pretty chill and then BAM! Insta-rage!

        a Finnish user getting really offended at the word perkele

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      As a Finn, I can say this is pretty accurate. Perkele is sort of a Finnish folklore version of satan, but the word is most commonly used as an exclamation/general curse word.