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Will "You are ugly and your mother dresses you strangely" be an insult that will work in all languages?

No reason, really - I'm just curious. Might come in handy with all these Olympic visitors :-)

Do you have any alternative suggestions?

And any globally applicable compliments? Just in case!

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  • Liz
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    I know that this joke does not translate well, unless you want to laugh and leave your audience scratching their head, and the translator trying to make it funny while he translates.

    Without further adieu

    Q-

    What do you call a chicken that crosses the country road, rolls around in the dirt and crosses back?

    A-

    A dirty double crossing chicken.

    hahaha

    I told that joke to a bi lingual el Salvador man

    who was laughing so hard at the joke till he realized

    it didn't translate to the Honduran man... ha ha that was the funniest part.

    These are American culture jokes, you had to be there.

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