Friday, July 5, 2024

& fri., 5 july, 2024: french & german & gaelic & japanese & russian & spanish fireworks cleanup: give us This Day our Daily Curse

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

FRENCH:  “Trempe le drapeau dans de l'héroïne et je m'en accomoderai…”     ‡

GERMAN:   “Tauch die Flagge im Heroin ein,  dann sauge ich sie an.”      ‡

GAELIC, SCOTTISH: “Bog a’ bhratach ann an heroin agus sùgidh mi oirre.”      ‡

JAPANESE: もし旗をヘロに濡らしたら、俺はちゅうちゅう吸うだぜ。 — “Moshi hata wo hero ni nurashitara, ore wa chū-chū sū da ze.”    ‡

RUSSIAN:  “промочи флаг героином и я поссосу!” — “Promoči flag geroinom i ya possosu!”    ‡

SPANISH: “Remoja la bandera con heroina y yo lo chupo.”    ‡

SWEDISH:  Vem fan är du, George Washington?    ‡‡

        

 ‡)  “Soak the flag in heroin & I'll suck on it!”  — attrib. to a famous former Commissioner of Sewers  

 ‡‡)  Who the fuck are you, George Washington?

        

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from curse + berate in 69+ languages, from Soft Skull Press

                        

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