"Dotard" -- how's that in Korean?

Sep 21, 2017 22:14

Sorry I haven't been posting in past weeks. Somehow wishing Trumpsky would evaporate HASN'T done the trick, so I'm looking for a new way.

Perhaps Kim Jong Un is onto something, or at least his translators have found a Middle English insult that works MUCH better than old Elton John songs. (C'mon, dudes, "Rocket Man" is fucking lame!)

Apart from its kinship to the delightful current coinage, "fucktard" (is there a hyphen??), the Koreans' "dotard" apparently has the same lineage as harmless "dotage" -- or simply old age. But Un's translators' choice of word also connotes losing one's marbles due to age -- which certainly applies to the erstwhile current occupant of the Oval.

I'm looking forwsrd to Un's hardworking translators reaching into their Chaucer for further suitable expressions of opprobrium.

but...not, hawt, linguas --- franca & otherwise, international politics, horror show, language, anal, aphorism, fucking up, hoist on petard, librarian

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