It's been a struggle for non-English speaking countries to properly translate the eloquent diction of President Donald Trump. Especially with his strong,One on One Lessons Where You Learn Through Hands on Caressing stable grasp of the English language.
This week proved quite the challenge with Trump's reported comment Thursday about immigrants from "shithole countries" like Haiti, El Salvador, and those in Africa. The "vulgar language" tends to lose its meaning if directly translated, so foreign media reached for the right way to convey what the American president was really trying to say.
SEE ALSO: Trump's racist 'sh*thole' comment: Who censored and who didn't?We used Google Translate for the many different takes on "shithole," along with a few translations from different publications.
Here's what we found:
CroatiaVukojebina: Google translates it to "middle of nowhere," although a lot of dictionaries have a more graphic translation, as seen below.
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ChinaLan guo: "Countries that suck," as Quartz explained.
TaiwanNiao bu sheng dan de guo jia: "Countries where birds don't lay eggs," also from Quartz.
South KoreaGo-ji-so-gul: Quartz translates that to "beggars' haunts."
JapanBenjo no yō ni kitanai kuni: "Countries dirty like toilets."
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ItalyCesso di paesi: "Toilet countries," according to PRI.
El SalvadorAgujeros de mierda: "F**k holes."
MexicoPaíses de mierda: "Countries of shit."
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FrancePays de merde: "Shit countries."
CanadaTrous-a-rats: "Rat holes."
HaitiTrou a merde: "Hole of shit."
FinlandPersläpimaat: "Asshole countries," according to The Washington Post.
GermanyDrecksloch: "Sinkhole."
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IsraelM’churban: "Crappy or shitty."
NetherlandsAchterlijke landen: "Backwards," as PRI translates it.
IranChaah-e mostarah: "Toilet hole countries," PRI says.
Other publications, like the Vatican newspaper, L‘Osservatore Romano,just avoided the curse word altogether -- no translation needed.
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