12 Nov
2016
12 Nov
'16
5:41 a.m.
On 11/11/16 12:36 PM, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:
The most bizarre 'benefit' of CypherPunk list to foreign people like me is learning new bad words and adjetives almost all the weeks... :P
Already knowed 'obtuse' because its writting and sound remembers a lot 'obtuso' in Portuguese. The word is used the same way here.
It's a pity to learn that 'Schmuck' is a bad word. It's a cute word, sounds pretty good and it would be a great name to some food or my future pet. Meh! :(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmuck_(pejorative) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmuck_%28pejorative%29>
As with other words, it can be used endearingly to mostly flip the meaning: Have a beer, you poor schmuck. sdw