Re: OT: Slang, curses and vulgarities
| From: | Muke Tever <hotblack@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 31, 2005, 15:44 |
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Adrian Morgan (aka Flesh-eating Dragon) <dragon@...> wrote:
> Isaac Penzev wrote:
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>> It is not regional. It comes from jail slang where it denotes a passive
>> homosexualist. Jail slang words became very popular in USSR after WW2.
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> I gotta ask what a homosexualist is. Someone who believes in homosexuals? <g>
Hehe...
The Russian word appears to be "gomoseksualist", with an adjective
"gomoseksual'nyj". (English of course gets by with just "homosexual"
for both.)
*Muke!
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