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From: lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross)
Subject: Dole: First talk clean... (was Fuck You in Esperanto?)
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Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 03:39:28 GMT
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In a previous article, as999@torfree.net (Adrian Boldan) says:

>Robert Dole (dole@unemployed.com) wrote:
>
>: How do you say "Fuck You" in Esperanto?  What about other obsenities?
>
>Do you already know all the rest in Esperanto? Start with the decent 
>words first. Let me send you the first lesson. I guarantee that it 
>doesn't have any obscene words.

FIRST TALK CLEAN, THEN TALK GREEN, eh?

Personally I think it would be a great propaganda coo (sic)* if Bob Dole 
learned to say "Fikigxu en Esperanto", but perhaps "Kiel vi fartas?"** 
would be an acceptable (because crude-sounding to the English-thinking) 
compromise...

*for the Esperantists, maybe not for the Republicans...
**Esperanto for "How fare ye?" -- "to fart" is "furzi" in Esperanto
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