re: #120 Dr Lizardo

In Czech (and Polish and other Slavic languages), there’s “kurva” [pronounced like it’s spelled, but with a lightly trilled ‘r’. It’s roughly analogous to “fuck”.

I worked in the export department with a number of Polish colleagues. Every once in a while they would get a call (usually from the Russian customs office) to which I could hear the reply “kur-r-r-r-r-r-va”.

Which meant that we had a big problem on our hands with a shipment.

I came up with the “kurva curve”: the longer he rolled his r-r-r-r-r-r-rs, the longer we were going to have to stay to sort out the headache…