Re: CHAT: Cowan again (was: jokes (was: Fdnyldjikyl Inglyx))

BP Jonsson wrote:

> >Is that because they understand it, or because they don't understand it,
> >or both?
>
> Kinda both.  Just outside the verge of understandable for most Swedes.
#  [O]ne might say to another, 'You are a Bumbo', or 'You look like a Togg',
# without offence; for these expressions, though presumably hostile in
# intention, have no known significance, discourteous or otherwise.

                -- A.P. Herbert's Misleading Case "Trott v. Tulip"

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