Friday, October 1, 2021

fri., 1 oct, 2021: a brazilian caravanserai?: give us This Day our Daily Curse

[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat & entirely total point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]

PORTUGUESE, BRAZILIAN: Sua mãe ladra, mas a caravana passa... 

   

‡‡)  Yr  mother may bark, but the caravan moves on...” 

[var. on an old & globally-popular Arab. prov., sd. to be esp. popular in Braz.]  

   

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