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Re: Cheap, shallow and super: French deficiencies

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Sunday, February 29, 2004, 19:39
John Cowan wrote:

>Andreas Johansson scripsit: > > > >>Some of my fellow foreign exchange students here reacted with >>incredulous hilarity when I, for reasons better left unexplained, >>accidentally made them aware there's a single Swedish verb meaning >>"to pull someone's hair" (_lugga_). They eventually concluded that >>Swedes must be a very violent bunch to have need of a such word. >> >> > >My candidate for Preposterous Swedish Verb is _fitta_ 'to give birth to >pigs' >
Does this work when humans give birth to pigs, or when pigs give birth to humans? ;-)