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Natlang translation question

From:Josh Brandt-Young <neonwave7@...>
Date:Friday, June 4, 1999, 22:52
Note: This is a serious request!

My mother is hosting a retirement party for a co-worker who,
after more than 30 years, is finally escaping from the nursing
bureaucracy.  It happens that this woman, whose name is
Vi, likes one phrase above all others: "Oh shit!" ...and so my
mother came up with the idea of having me make posters of it
in all the languages I could figure out to put on the walls where
the party is being held.

Once again, I'm quite serious; I would be consummately grateful
if those of you who know an idiomatic way to say "Oh shit!" in
any other natlangs could inform me (privately if desired).


Thank you very much!

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Josh Brandt-Young <neonwave7@...>
http://geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/6073/
"After the tempest, I behold, once more, the weasel."
(Mispronunciation of Ancient Greek)

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