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10 Insulting Words You Should Know

By Alex in Book & Literature, Neatorama Exclusives on May 3, 2008 at 12:48 am

There is a crisis of insults on the Web. On one hand, the volume of flames is very high yet the quality is poor. Gone are the days of the razor-sharp wit of Oscar Wilde and Winston Churchill*, only to be replaced by a string of four letter words typed in ALL CAPS by n00bs (the latest of which is “FAIL”, itself a failure of coming up with a more scathing insult, if you think about it).

*For example:
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go," says Oscar Wilde.
George Bernard Shaw wrote to Winston Churchill, "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend....if you have one." And Churchill wrote back, "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second......if there is one"

Well, it’s hard to teach wit - but all of us can learn the next best thing: the approximation of it by obfuscation, i.e. using big, difficult, and obscure words. So, to do our part in improving the quality of insults on teh Interweb, Neatorama has come up with a list of 10 Insulting Words You Should Know:

1. FRENCHIFY (v)

Definition: 1) To make French in quality or trait 2) To make somewhat effeminate, and 3) To contract a veneral disease (a 19th century slang).
Analysis: We have the English to thank for this word. Most people implicitly understand that it means to become more like the French, but not a lot know the second or the third meaning. We’re still not sure which is more insulting.

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predominately (pre DOM a nut li) အမ်ားဆံုး၊ အဓိကအားျဖင့္
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The adverb predominately means largely; mainly or mostly.
The programme's Channel 11 audience is predominantly Thai - many of whom are keen English language learners.
တီဗီ ခ်န္နယ္ ၁၁ ရဲ႕ ပရိသတ္ေတြကေတာ့ အဓိကအားျဖင့္ ထိုင္းလူမ်ဳိးေတြ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အမ်ားစုက အဂၤလိပ္စာ သင္ယူေလ့လာဖို႔ စိတ္ဓါတ္တက္ၾကြေနၾကတဲ့သူေတြပါ။

Relations between the predominately Muslim North and the Christian south are strained.
မူဆလင္အမ်ားစုျဖစ္တဲ့ ေျမာက္ပိုင္းနဲ႔ ခရစ္ယာန္ ေတာင္ပိုင္းၾကား ဆက္ဆံေရးဟာ တင္းမာေနတယ္။

Although it is predominately a local matter, there are aspects of national interest.
အဓိကအားျဖင့္ေတာ့ ေဒသတြင္း ကိစၥရပ္တစ္ခုသာျဖစ္ေပမယ့္ အမ်ဳိးသားအက်ဳိးစီးပြားနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္တဲ့ အပိုင္းေတြ ရွိေနတယ္။

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