Re: Fw: OUAI = "DAMN"?

From: Edgar Krentz (ekrentz@lstc.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 15 1998 - 03:53:14 EDT


>I suspect that if the JS had been really interested in using "idiomatic"
>English for "ouai", they might have used "TS", instead. ;-) But that
>expression uses one of the "forbidden" words... in Greek class we always
>translated kakos as "evil", but it can actually mean S.
>ken

Are you sure? I thought the word was KOPROS.

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