Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site haring.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!turing!haring!jim From: jim@haring.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Dirty words - Esperanto Message-ID: <329@haring.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 02:16:36 EDT Article-I.D.: haring.329 Posted: Mon Oct 15 02:16:36 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Oct-84 06:08:59 EDT Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 13 Apparently-To: rnews@turing.LOCAL From the Manchester Guardian of October 13: ESPERANTO invective has evolved further than at first was thought. ``Oh pilkoj'' would actually be a rather tame expression, says an expert, pilkoj being a word also applicable to billiard or tennis ball. ``Kojono'' would be the word to use if one wanted to be vulgar, close to the Spanish equivalent ``cojones''. Also available are ``pisi for'' (for means away or off), ``merdo'' and ``friki''. That's all the Esperanto I know. Does anyone out there speak it, apart from The Stainless Steel Rat? Jim McKie Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam mcvax!jim