ciao, the correct italian translation of “fuck the borders“is “fanculo ai confini”. Thanks for ur nice post and nice to meet you, ah!

Cicciosax, thanks for the corrections. I’ll pass it on to Francis who takes care of the translations!

Hey guys, I have two Italian girls staying with me at the moment, and they said that they are the same “más o menos”, but that the one I currently have, “Fottitene dei limiti”, is a bit stronger. Comments?

Francis, “fottitene dei limiti” is referring to the “limits” not to the “borders” of the countries, that’s why I was arguing my version to fit better for the case!

In Greek you wrote “National borders are fucking themselves”, maybe it would be more decent with respect to your text to write “Γαμώ τα σύνορα”, which would mean “I fuck the borders” since the Greek language doesn’t have any infinitive.

Correct me if I misunderstood, but apart from the Mexican version (chingar), is it “putiar” the Spanish translation? In that case, the correct spelling is “putear”. And I would go instead for: “Que se jodan las fronteras” or, a bit stronger, “A tomar por culo las fronteras”

Cvijus, once again, passed on to Francis who tries to sync the translations. Thanks!

K, I think “Putiar la frontera” is supposed to be Columbian Spanish. Putiar might just be a lapsus keyboardus though.

Thats *Colombian! But yes, it is Colombian Spanish.

Greek: I considered this, but the problem is that in Greek the word border is ambiguous, and without it could mean something like “fuck all limits” or something like this.

Spanish: No ends of problems with this one, “me cago en las fronteras” is probably one of the ones that is most popular, but again, “a tomar por culo las fronteras” is good too :) They’re all equally correct, so for now I’ll just keep the one I have.

Italian: I just checked on WordReference, and it seems you are right. But I am relunctant to go against native speaker judgement. Both examples, yours and the current one have one google hit each. So I really don’t know :s If people can get the meaning I’ll keep it as it is, if not, I’ll add yours and move them to ‘partially confirmed’.

Francis, in Greek the most proper word for limits would be όρια or περιορισμούς (the last one would be the most proper for limits), thus the word σύνορα doesn’t need any specification (ethnic, national, state), unless it is your explicit intention to mention them.

Italian: it’s really “confini”, not “limiti”. Cicciosax is right about that, and Francis has a point abouth “fottitene” being better. I recommend “fottitene dei confini”.

Hello Dejan,

just speaking of the proper translation, in the mexican spanish, the correct way of saying “jebes granicu” would actually be: “A la chingada la frontera”. “Chinga la frontera” means that the border is giving us a bad time (which is also true), speacially if that border is a ultra-modern wall built on the US-mexican border.

Regards,
Daniel.

I think that both “chinga la frontera” and “putiar (putear) la frontera” should be merged into one of the proposed forms; namely, “me cago en la(s) frontera(s)” or “que se jodan las fronteras”. The other two forms don’t work out very well for Chilean and Rioplatense Spanish and, if I am not mistaken, also for Spain Spanish.

Francis, I am native speaker :-) made in italy!