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  1. Doug Lord
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    Eric, its also what my Dad had carved on a big piece of wood hanging in his office. He always said it meant:" Don't let the ******** get you down". I've always remembered that.....
     
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    While the grammar isn't all that, recently in response to something political someone posted on DeviantArt, I came up with:

    "Accessi Sedi Cacavi"
     
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    cacavi isn't identifiable in any language. enlighten us?

    https://translate.google.com/#de/en/Cacavi says it's detected as English, meaning all the other options failed.

    Derived from "I came, I saw, I conquered" I believe. But my best GUESS at it is "caca ve" in Spanish "saw feces "
    If I'm correct then nearly translates "I came, I saw, looked like crap! "
     
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    I believe it means "I defecated".

    So "I went, I sat, I pooped".
     
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    Actually, "shat" gives Cacavi.
     
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    Now ... why am I thinking about the Blackadder episode where Dr Johnson inquires if the Prince is using his dictionary to look up dirty words? :D
     
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    I HAVE to look them up.
    You wouldn't unjustly accuse me, of familiarity with, or accustomed to using foul language? Would you?
     
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    I have to look them up too. I mean, besides lawyers, a few students or professors, and some in the RCC actually use latin these days and how many of them use dirty words when they do so? Even they might have to look them up.
     
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    Hey! A new truism!

    "You know a language is dead when even scholars have to look up the dirty words."
     
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    I was taught Latin, had to read the "great book series" and all that in school. When I was an alter boy, we did the mass in Latin, which now gives you a clue to my age.

    I do not believe you can do today's job, with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.
     
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    Actually, most languages have curses but not often filthy curses like in English.

    Blini or blin in Albanian is a curse used by Russian peoples and means pancakes made from buckwheat flour and served with sour cream.
    It's used when like you bang your finger, or drop something. The reasoning is the first few pancakes you make seldom come out right, a messy short learning curve.
    So it's used as an epithet when you make a mistake.
    It is NOT considered polite. Moms slap kids that say it as a curse. Asking for more pancakes is fine.

    Told to me by a Russian friend, whose first name is Blynn. It was his response to my asking the meaning of his unusual name.
     
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    Most languages also haven't had a Richard Prior, among many others, to mine a vast diversity of ethnic and national -isms.

    Americans, even Texans, can be remarkably profane. I predict is will replace, or at least greatly augment, the Cowboy or Oilman stereotype if things go on long enough. Indeed, in popular movies cowboys have now been portrayed as far more foul mouthed than they apparently were.

    Myself, for everyday relevance I prefer the soap poisoning joke from A Christmas Story.
     
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    English doesn't have an arm lock on profanity and the best use common terms, such as questioning your mothers ancestry or possibly your sister's sexual preferences, etc.
     

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    "May you grow like an onion, with your head in the ground!" Mideastern curse. Forget which language.
     
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