May he live until he is urinating on his feet and defecating on his heels
Since Sinoglot is “language in China, eclectically” with all of us here on the group blog doing some language/dialect-specific work on individual blogs, it makes sense to highlight some of what’s going on with those: Recently, we’ve got…
- The bad-ass Nisan Shaman saving Sergudai Fiyanggo from an untimely death: “May he live until the hair of his head becomes white, until the teeth of his mouth become yellow, until his back bends, until his eyes grow dim, until his legs are frozen in their tracks, and he is urinating on his feet and defecating on his heels!”
- Singing and Dancing in Wu, for when you need to number one or number two
- And of course
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I love the poop and pee theme of this post. I guess the Naxi link doesn’t really fit in, but then again, it could be a picture of a commode, and someone had bad aim and dropped two turds to the commode’s left side.
I’m embarrassed to admit that I didn’t even think about the bodily function connection. I was too in love with the blessing for Sergudai Fiyanggo.
Turds? Maybe Duncan needs to drop by and defend his script 😀
You want turds? I’ll give you turds!
(I’d better just add that this is an actual character in my IME and I’m not just attaching a crude hand drawn mspaint of a guy taking a crap.)
Wow. Renews the vigor and polysemy of “graphic”.