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Sunday, July 14, 2019

The Expletive Primary

In an attempt at humor, I once tried to accumulate as many translations for the word s**t as I could.  I asked anyone and everyone how to say it in their native language.  I got responses from Bangladeshis, Chinese, Eritreans, Japanese, Kenyans, Koreans, Moroccans, and more.  Hora, my Iranian, refused to give me the Farsi equivalent, telling me she didn't want me to use language that wasn't nice.

Hora and the rest of my translating squad are light-years ahead of the current occupant of the Oval Office in niceness.  Given his xenophobia and hate-mongering, as evidenced by his tweets earlier today, I'm of the opinion that he deserves to be called every translation of  s**t one can come up with.

Go for it.  Go to translate.google.com. Then:
  1. Choose English as the source language.
  2. Type s**t .
  3. Choose any of the plethora of destination languages.  (The site offers everything from Afrikaans through Azerbaijani to Cebuano, Chichewa, Hausa, and dozens more.)
  4. Pick your favorite.
  5. Tell me what it is.
 I'll tabulate, and let you know which word and language win the Expletive Primary.


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