No kant do: Eurovision bars Malta’s entry over title’s similarity to C-word

NOT EMANUEL KANT father of the Sturm und Drang era in germany!

Do you have a source for that for me to followup?

I learned te Latin root as well, but in the historic context of "I'm your servant" as a formal goodbye formula.

I'm aware of the old Germanic sev which could be argued to be the root but ice never seen a linguist or historian actually explain that!

Thanks in advance!

That sounds reasonable and I can understand the decision.

theguardian.com only gave us this for context:

>The chorus of Conte’s empowerment anthem contains the phrase “serving kant” – a queer or drag slang phrase roughly meaning “to express boldness”.

Kinda depends on the Fotze being viewed.

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The link sports good suggestions for other languages too, usually the first option on the list

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The Finnish word you have is also just 'shit' and in no way equivalent to 'cunt'. The word youre looking for is 'vittu', although it is usually (mis)translated as 'fuck'. The common translation is likely due to the prevalence of use of both 'fuck' and 'vittu' and their similar severity rather than meaning.

The Spanish word Coño is a much more accurate comparison.

The German Scheiße is most definitely not on the same level here, that would be more like shit.

The more direct equivalent IMHO is Fotze.

Drit is shit in Norwegian. Fitte is cunt

Isn't the Italian one just like stupid/turd/stupid turd?

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Maybe *'figa'*?

Also all the slav languages translate to either 'shit' or 'fuck', neither of which I would associate with cunt.

Same with Portuguese ('shit').

Greek is just 'wanker'.

And Polish is 'hooker'.


Edit: found this https://www.youswear.com/index.asp?word=CUNT

Lort means shit in Danish, the word you are looking for is fisse

Fotze ist so ein schönes Wort <3

I don't know the source of this list, but #15 actually means 'shit' (like with several other languages in the comment).

However, I understand it's not easy, because I wouldn't say there is a straight equivalent of it in the language. You could go for 'picsa', but that's often typically used for women, or it's closer in meaning to the english '*removed*'. 'Pöcs' has a similar vibe when used specifically on males, but it's much closer to being 'prick'. Then there's 'köcsög', which has a closer vibe to 'scumbag', but at least not so gender specific. I guess it's situational.

Russian would be Пизда (pizza). Хуй is male.

I'd say the issue here is that the rest of the song is in English. It's literally only this one word that is supposedly in Maltese, in the sentence "I do it all the time, serving kant".

That could be a new type of competition, a cuntetition will you say

1. **English**: Cunt

2. **French**: ~~Merde~~ Connard

3. **German**: ~~Scheiße~~ Fotze

4. **Spanish**: ~~Cabrón~~ Coño

5. **Italian**: ~~Stronzo~~ figa

6. **Dutch**: Kut

7. **Swedish**: Fitta

8. **Danish**: ~~Lort~~ fisse

9. **Norwegian**: Drit

10. **Finnish**: ~~Paska~~ vittu

11. **Portuguese**: Merda

12. **Russian**: Хуй (khuy)

13. **Polish**: Kurwa

14. **Czech**: Hovno

15. **Hungarian**: Szar

16. **Greek**: Μαλάκας (malakas)

17. **Turkish**: Siktir

18. **Romanian**: Măgar

19. **Bulgarian**: Пикня (piknya)

20. **Slovak**: Hovno

21. **Slovenian**: Sranje

22. **Croatian**: Jebeni

23. **Serbian**: Јебати (jebati)

24. **Ukrainian**: Хуй (khuy)

25. **Lithuanian**: Šūdas

26. **Latvian**: Sūds

27. **Estonian**: Sitt

I'm Maltese and I fully support this. The whole song is in english, except for this one word. And it's used in this particular context, and the word doesn't really make sense in the rest of the sentence. This is definitely a "leopards ate my face" moment

One that i hate is from the high german dialects: servus

So many wanna be intelectuals always go like this when you say it: "actually did you know this word means slave, because the romans called their slaves with it and in english it means 'serve us'. So you just called me a slave"

The word "servus" doesnt come from latin and has been in use before the romans infuenced the south germanic tribes!


Headline fix: "Cunts tell Conte on Kant: You Can't!"

*kants

With the abundance of languages in the EU I imagine that allows us to find quite many words that are phonetically similar to rude words of other languages.

Wouldn't it be fun to see if it's only the English language that are afforded such privileges of denial?

On the other hand I don't really care what happens in the eurovision song contest.

What a bunch of Cunts.


Meanwhile Israel will participate yet again while committing genocide and ethnic cleansing.

So remember kids: Murdering, Raping, Torturing and Starving women and girls is okay. Using a word that might sound like it is referring to their private parts, even though the word is just normal in your language, is completely unacceptable.

I Kant believe you've done this.

What if instead of her song she chose to perform Can't Touch This.

Kant song costs Kant singer her can't sing. [Semicit.]

The Cunt of Monte Cristo

Well someone needs their reason critiqued