Re: Insults was (Re: Fw: translation needed)

On Sat, 23 Oct 1999 17:40:34 -0400, Mia Soderquist <tuozin@...> =
wrote:

>I think this sounds like a translation project. :)
>Better yet, how about some new and creative insults.
>ea-luna has several "bad words", one of which is "mutu", which
>means something like "incredibly stupid and annoying in a
>pointless or dangerous sort of way". You might use this word in
>reference to people who see you put on a turn signal in the left
>lane, trying to get to the right lane to make a right turn, and
>speed up to keep you from getting over in front of them, causing
>you to miss your turn;
Sounds pretty much like what I call "ghaija" in Sarbleski
(http://www.io.com/~hmiller/sarbleski.html).

> or maybe in reference to a loud,
>boisterous person bragging loudly about something they know ALL
>about when they are really clueless and everyone else in the room
>knows it. [Hey, that's my ex-husband. Total mutu.] You can use
>this word as an exclamation too.
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