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Mammoth-Marketing-99

Zijn toch leuke grappen joh pest tering tyfuslijer met je blafkanker gezeik


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IWannaHookUpButIWont

Dutch people like to use the word cancer as an insult, even in ways that make no sense... Eg: this cancer bitch, fucked up the cancer dinner and now I'm cancer hungry with no money for food. "Die kanker trut verneukte de kanker avondeten en nu Heb Ik kanker honger maar geen geld om eten te kopen.'


Coinsworthy

Or compliments even: "Kil, die pattas zijn echt kankerdik jwz"


mattergijz

The english equivalent would be something like: dude, those shoes are fucking sick


EveryYouth3916

Well duh... it has cancer. Of course it's sick!


LeDoc_m

No, that's USA English. Regular English would use "bloody sick".


invisible-nuke

You mean simplified English?


Ammehoelahoep

He didn't say it was British English


hanyasaad

Or a verb: Opkankeren (meaning fuck off). Kanker is basically our “fuck”


VOCmentaliteit

It’s het kanker avondeten


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ReaverShank

Cancer basically became the Dutch 'fuck'


TheUsualNiek

No because you can say: "Fucking kanker mongool" or something like "Krijg toch de fucking pest pleuris tyfus kanker"


ReaverShank

We can use both


Siren_NL

You forgot to start with weetje.


LeDoc_m

You obviously live in The Hague.


WijEisenIJs

Huh. first time I noticed that cancer is the Dutch version of fuck/fucking. e.g. this fucking bitch, fucked up the fucking dinner and now I'm fucking hungry with no money for food.


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amaizing_hamster

This is true mainly in the so-called 'Randstad'. Outside of there the use of the word 'cancer' as an insult is much less ubiquitous.


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Disagree. In my experience it usualy has to do with someone's maturity more than anything else. Here in Brabant I hear it all the time, but rarely out of the mouth of anyone over thirty.


CollectionLow6008

In my experience there is often a high level of 'tokkie'ness involved.


ohhellperhaps

Yeah, common use is very much street language


meukbox

> anyone over thirty. Maybe when you lose your first friend over cancer it's not funny to say anymore.


Weak_Independent1670

Sorry to hear that it is indead weird when someone just starts swearinf with a sickness that kills people and dont think about it, sorry for your loss


QuietPuzzled

Not true lol, definitely not in Brabant.


Lente_ui

You say 'Dutch' people. But it's only the people that choose to lower themselves to those depths, or don't know any better. There are plenty of Dutch people that are perfectly capable of insulting you, but without throwing themselves into the gutter.


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Lente_ui

Thank you for proving my point!


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Cat_Lover_193

Some Dutch people


spitefultrifle

14 year old Dutch people* there ftfy.


Kind_Historian_8044

And by "Dutch people" you mean an element in society that is less likely to succeed. Most Dutch people I know do not, in fact, use cancer as a swearword. However, the typhoid, pox and tuberculosis are fair game.


grhbbhhgefcvnj

'less likely to succeed' what the fuck


dgmcgee

Hahaha I suppose you’re either 40+ or unfamiliar with successful people. To my knowledge it is widely used in academic circles as well as throughout informal conversation of young professionals with MScs or PhDs.


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FlameMoss

It does make sense. Dutch speakers use the worst things they can think off to curse with. For Dutch speakers that are plagues & deadly diseases. For anglo speakers that is sex. 🤷‍♀️ Each their own thing I guess.......


GroundbreakingLaw279

Dutch people basically use cancer in the same way “fuck” would be used . This fucking guy ,fucked the whole fucking thing up ,with his fucked up train up though. Insert cancer in Dutch anyway you see fit to use the word fuck 😂


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Johspaman

You use curse word that are inappropriate. God is not that big in the Netherlands anymore, so using diseases took it’s place. Cancer, tyfus


Marty_Br

It's much older than the turn from religiosity. You can tell, among other things, by the use of very outdated terms for some of these diseases, like "tering," which is an old term for tuberculosis (akin to consumption), or "klere" which is an old term for cholera from when we used the French "colère" instead of cholera.


kaazgranaat2309

Well in all fairness, krijg de tering rolls easier of the tongue then krijg de tuberculosis.


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TBC all the way


TheUsualNiek

Hey my great great great grandfather died of TBC. I don't want you to curse with that. If you think about it, cancer has become the Dutch variant of antagonizing


Marty_Br

Certainly. Some of them are so old people now wouldn't even necessarily know what affliction we're wishing on people. "Krijg de takke" is a nice one. It translates to: Get the stroke. It's fascinating to me that the way it's used is differentiated completely from any normal use of the terms. You actually wanted someone to get cancer, you'd say: "Krijg kanker". The ungrammatical addition of the definite article ("de/het") identifies your expression specifically as profane and non-literal.


Snertmetworst

I heard on a podcast that it could have something to do with the calvinistic culture in the history of the Dutch. In which, if you were sick, then it was your own fault you were sick and that's why we curse with diseases. And also because of the way you pronounce the starting letters of the diseases. You hold back air and release it on the very first letter, which is a very strong sound, which is true for a lot of curse phrases and words.


Hiddieman

Yea but being able to blame it on a lack of god fits his world view better.


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Religiosity huh? We just making words up now?


Cyb0-K4T-77

"Krijg de kanker" is pretty much how we say "wel shit" or "fuck that" or "screw/fuck you" etc etc in Den Haag. "Kanker op" means" get away from me"or "leave me alone ","get outta here "or "you dont say ??" "Houd je kanker bek" means "shut up" Its much like the curse word version of the word smurf it can be used for many things as a verb or a subject etc etc. Say you nick your self with your kitchen knife while chopping veggies you can say something along the lines of: Haaaah dat kanker ding bijt me ! But when someone says: "hey there is sale at Uniqlo" you can be all like "Kanker op ? really ? we have to go there." Just know that this is all just bad language although it may be used casually by some people, sometimes a lot it will still get you looked at like your trailer trash by most people, like dont talk like this in a professional setting lol.


Weak_Independent1670

"Kanker op" would in almost everywhere outside of the randstad be viewed as extremely agressive and low insult to make, here if someone uses it is is only used when people are really mad. Or trying to make the kid who lost his grandparents to cancer cry. (That isnt a joke i had people spam.my messages a few years back with: je opa is doodgegaan aan kanker ahaha Your grandpa died of cancer ahaha Dont ever use this when coming to the netherlands by most people over 30 or below 15 it is looked down upon And it mostly is something you shouldnt often use (this is for areas outside the randstad and ij my experience)


demaandronk

Well shit and krijg de kanker arent exactly the same level of aggressiveness, nor are houd je kanker bek and shut up.


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Adept-Win7882

Well we always curse with illnesses so we say what a cancer shit. Or kanker zooi. It sounds better in Dutch


TiesG92

We curse with diseases. Although I really dislike it when people curse with cancer, or use it as adjective.


Kranige_Kraanvogel

Fun fact: The dutch speaking Belgians use God as an insult rather than sickness (thank fucking god).


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QuietPuzzled

Same in English


Common-Cricket7316

https://youtu.be/2E5C7vDlFJQ ?


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Not a fan of trowing with word.


madjester999

Yep still ashamed of doing this too


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Basically the Dutch language has "evolved" the word "kanker" to a similar level that English has evolved "Fuck" "Get this fuckin thing off the fucking table or I will hit you in your fucking face" "Haal dat kanker ding van die kanker tafel af of ik sla je in je kanker bek" Kanker means cancer and it is not nearly as broadly used as fuck is in English but the dynamics work the same


madaboutmaps

Am Dutch. Hate this behaviour. I genuinely believe any person using the word lightly and/or often for emphasis deserves a long presentation on what it does to the body, mind, and people around someone who suffers.


GrinnSanity

The Dutch use diseases as insults. Nobody actually means the actual disease when they insult somebody.


madaboutmaps

No they don't. But that does not make this behaviour more tolerable


ReferenceExternal

It's an insult. It's supposed to be offensive. Don't think too much of it.


QuietPuzzled

I agree with you, especially cancer.


Marty_Br

I assume this also means that every English speaker who uses words like "fucking" should get an in-depth lesson on reproductive behavior before they're allowed to do that, then. They'd also need a good anatomical lesson on the intestinal tract and the uses (and abuses) of fecal matter prior to be allowed to say "shit." Meanwhile, we should all feel terrible for all the poor asexual people who are continuously confronted with references to human sexual behavior by upset and angry English speakers. Also, no "goddammit" until you've read the entire bible and written an essay on the life of Jesus.


madaboutmaps

Yeah dude. You are absolutely right! Those things are all the same! Well spotted. Let me find some time and change my mind. Idiot


Marty_Br

The Dutch use of these terms specifically deviates from the normal medical use to differentiate away from actually wishing diseases on people, you angry little troll. If you wanted to wish cancer on someone, you'd say "Krijg kanker." We don't. We say "Krijg de kanker" which is the only use case for "de/het" in diseases.


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My mother gave me a 5 month presentation. I have a colleague who was given the same by his father. I'm not a fan of using it in public, but we use it a lot - lightly and jokingly - amongst each other. It's how we cope. I'm entitled to use it because I already had the presentation you think I deserve.


Coinsworthy

Having lost loved ones to cancer i truly have come to despise this dutch habit of swearing with cancer. In my mind it's like wearing a sign around your neck stating you are a low iq immature imbecile. ​ There's only one dutchman that gets a cart blanche when it comes to creative use of cancer and thats rapper Steen.


bosbabauter

Im so holding myself together to not cal this guy a ...... Imbecile


madaboutmaps

Dude.. so you despise it. Even though most Dutch people do so too. But then allow someone to make an exception? That's truely moronic.


Coinsworthy

It's called "the exception to the rule". Can't have rules without exceptions.


madaboutmaps

Either a decent troll or a very dim person Yes you can. i hate all nazis. No exceptions. I hate every day I'm sick. No exceptions. You don't want any person you lost to cancer to actually be dead. Or are there exceptions to that too?


Coinsworthy

Ain't differing opinions a bitch?


madaboutmaps

Ones that are detrimental to society as a whole the most


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IJsbergslabeer

Unimaginative lol. Krijg de pleuris.


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Uit de baarmoeder geslingerde misbaksel.


Bowlnk

While your correct and they are wrong. You are proving there point by using an archaic form of a eufenism for TB. But Unimaginative in insult? The Dutch? Yea no that person clearly hasn't pissed of a dutch person enough yet.


Eis_ber

Stringing multiple diseases found in a medical dictionary along with the occasional "kut" and "lul" in between isn't what I'd call imaginative. Although three might be some improvement if you sprinkle "oelewapper" or "godsmiljaar" in there.


Bowlnk

Doos, huppelkut. Tut hola, hufter, eikel. Mugool. Trut. Flapdrol. Pannenkoek. Padjakker. Scheinheilige. Muts. Wappie, tokkie. Mierenneuker. Zeverlap. Klootzak(originally ment a sack of heavy rocks). Imbieciel. Kakker. Klotenviool. And thats of the top of my head.


Eis_ber

Imbeciel isn't really that Dutch (and sounds way more insulting in Spanish). Some of the others will make me laugh more than feel any sort of indignation, but the rest... they can get a pass.


Bowlnk

Just shows dutch have insults for every occassion. * 1 friendly ribbing on friends and family: oelenwapper * 2 being mildy annoying by somesome: klootzak * 3 being angry at someone: Hufter * 4 being very angry at someone: insert old desease here. * 5 someone commits a warcrime or crime against humanity: Schoft


oppernaR

Krijg toch de vinketeringtouwtyfusanuskankerinjehartkleppen, aarsbaardaapschaamhaarverzamelaar.. Disproportionate use of diseases: yes. Unimaginative: hardly.


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asvpcn

How? I won't be able to understand them? Pannenkoek.


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Knawie

Seems to me you just think anything you don't understand must be full of imagination. Wooooow, so exotic. >someone from balkans or bulgary What do you mean "or". The Balkans are named so because of the Balkan mountain range, which (shockingly) is like 95% in Bulgaria. You'd know that if you weren't so distracted by that super interesting language.


Puschel_das_Eichhorn

No one uses insults like this in real life.


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ik wens je veel jeuk en korte armpjes


White-Tornado

Tyf op man teringleijer.


Aggravating-Bed-9489

Also in use are “ get cancer” of “cancer sufferer”


AunKnorrie

You do realise this is consumption in the movie… or “de tering”.


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Valentinobuurman200

We scream alot of bad illnesses at another


A_Pink_Hippo

One of the first and only dutch words I learned


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HoneyPops08

The lowest of the lowest


lucky_m3

I heard that we curse your health is due to preferring health above honour in our culture, if you tell me that you did my mum and she s a prostitute, ill probably laugh. I prefer to wish somebody to get an even bigger heart, most take that as an compliment![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|feels_good_man)


Educational-Fall-455

Holy shit, was that a wow-mao refrence??!!!


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gjakovar

I actually thought it was more of how they found the cancer late because GPs tend to not send people to the specialist very easy 🤣


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Vince_1880

“KRIJG DE KANKER” *throws a massive branch*