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Oh I bet that can be fun around the office , cussing sombody out and calling them "poopy head " in a forien language
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On the first day of school, they had an orientation meeting where all the teachers told us what to expect to learn and how the classes would be conducted. The judge teaching the module on court procedures warned that people who are being tried rarely have "polite" vocabularies, yet we would have to translate whatever they said into exactly comparable English, no matter how vile it was. We would also have to interpret autopsy results and rape testimony. Therefore, he said, we would have to learn AND REPEAT ALOUD IN COURT every possible obscene or anatomical word, both in English and Spanish, and if we did not feel we were prepared to do this we had better leave now and not continue with the class. Two people actually did gather up their things and leave. One of them later told the judge that she planned on becoming a nun and doing missionary work in Latin America and she did not want to find out that such words even existed!
The real "fun" of having learned all these words is that nobody can post anything obscene or make up a disgusting screen name, no matter how oblique, which I can't catch and delete on our forum. Likewise if some chicano makes a crude comment and I turn around and tell him what he can do with it, they just about faint from shock
