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[Stephen D. Williams]

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

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