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)


As with other words, it can be used endearingly to mostly flip the meaning: Have a beer, you poor schmuck.

sdw