An important resource for travellers

So, in the course of confirming today that dans les vignes du Seigneur meant what I thought it meant (it does), I found The Alternative Dictionaries, which describes itself as ‘ a collection of various forms of “bad language” from many languages.’

So, if you ever needed to know how that in Hungarian the colloquial form of ‘go to hell’ translates literally as ‘I send you to Death’s penis‘, or what the literal translation of the Gaelic expression equivalent to ‘go for it’ is, or that in Polish you can refer to sickness in general (not just syphilis, as in many other European languages) by the word for ‘French’, you know where to go.

I have to go learn some Italian phrases before my next phone call to the Sault.

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