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Uglier Than a Monkey's Armpit: Untranslatable Insults, Put-Downs, and Curses from Around the World
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Stephen Dodson & Robert Vanderplank.
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Perigee
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paperback
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9780399535062
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122/2009
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21529
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They're the words you won't learn in any regular language class. Whether borne out of surprise, anger, passion, or humor, curses and insults make up some of the most colorful and profound phrases in any language, yet often make little sense outside of their mother tongue. In this book Oxford linguist Robert Vanderplank and multilingual Language Hat blogger Stephen Dodson collect some of the most interesting and expressive invectives from more than 40 languages, from "misokkasu" ("scum of soya paste," in Japanese) to "tu es um borra-battos" ("you s**t in your own boots," in Portuguese). Here too you will find such hilarious expressions as the Danish "kyllingehjerne" ("chicken brain") and the eloquent Scottish description of a dreamer who seems at a loss what to do, "like a fart in a trance."
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