A Moment Of Shock

[bloodyrosemccoy]

National Depression Screening Day
UN World Teacher's Day
Republic Day (Portugal)

 

Attention, speakers or studiers of European languages!

 

I need three interjections.

 

Say you’re in the shower, doing whatever it is you’re normally doing in the shower. Shampooing up, singing opera, making those shower faces, generally in the state of meditative zen nowness that is The Shower, and you turn around AND SEE A HAIRY SPIDER THE SIZE OF YOUR FIST HANGING IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE JEEZUS CHRIST!

 

Assuming you are a native speaker, aside from the generic “AAAAAGH”, what do you yell in:

 

-German?

-French?

-Russian?

 

Bonus points if the Russian exclamation can also be provided in the Cyrillic alphabet.

Comments

In French

[blackbyrd2.livejournal.com]

Merde! (or, if you're slightly more calm, Mon Dieux (sp?)(Or, apparently, Sacre Bleu, although I've no idea if this is accurate or just someone's idea of what French people exclaim.)

In German, I'd imagine there's all kinds of things you could say. German is a great language to swear in, since even saying something as innocuous as "Would you like some tea?" comes out sounding like you want their mother butchered by crazy gophers and staked out for the rest of the summer.

[bluetara2020.livejournal.com]

Generally I go with phrases than translate down to SOB, whoreson, ect. But must of the time I go with something a bit more...creative.

It's fun to curse something out creatively.

сын шлюхи - but let's see if that works.

[gryfindormia.livejournal.com]

French exclamations I've heard real French people use in surprise:

"Merde!" ("Shit!")

"Zut alors!" (roughly translated: "darn!")

"Quoi?!" ("What?!")

"Mince/Flûte!" (like "zut", have heard it used in surprise, but this is more for circumstances also deemed annoying/less fun surprises)

There are some more outdated ones, but I've never heard real French people use them, so I won't include them.

You want Latin as well? ;)