THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: Slovenia vs Serbia
🇷🇸 A fairly savage Serbian curse translates to “may your wife give birth to a centipede so you spend your life working for shoes”
vs
🇸🇮 An UNBELIEVABLY savage Slovene curse goes as follows… “I hope your tractor breaks”
For context, here's a list of countries and the number of tractors they have per 10,000 people...
7. Philippines (1.4)
6. Croatia (5.2)
5. China (6.7)
4. India (14)
3. South Africa (16)
2. Mexico (18)
1. Slovenia (574)
If it does break down, then at least they should have no problem borrowing a neighbour’s until they can get it fixed, as it seems like there’s plenty of them.
My husband is Slovenian and despite being born in Germany and raised in Canada, his loathing of Serbians is... there for some reason. Probably his father's influence.