#But if you untangle the nine goddamn overlapping accents and shit

[teaboot]

what does gertaliglench mean? google came up empty sorry

german-italian-english-french

My Italian and German-speaking grandfather used to use this one curse when my German and Yiddish-speaking father was growing up, which he then used while my English and French speaking ass was growing up, and now several mangled and poorly-imitated iterations later the instinctive thing to shout when things go poorly has become an absolute nonsense noise

I like to tell people it's the family curse