With the Norwegian government recently deciding to massively increase the US military presence in this country, I just really want to have some derogatory way of referring to Usonians in the Norwegian language. The problem is that I cannot find any good word for this: existing words fall short; foreign words I’m familiar with either don’t translate well, or don’t sound good when loaned, or aren’t easily understood; and I’m having a hard time coming up with a brand new word to fill this gap myself.
I’m hoping that by asking here that I might be able to find some inspiration, or perhaps even be enlightened about a Norwegian-language term that I didn’t know before.
it’s kind of funny, in dialectal Norwegian the word “boss” means “trash/garbage” but it’s identical to the word “boss” as in one’s boss or the boss in a video game.
People also do just straight up use the English word “trash” sometimes…
As an American who has always called my supervisor boss, I love this.