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Snowmeow · Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Location: pc room

Anything wrong with "dog baby"? Got some "oohs" in class today. We were talking about the names given to young of different species of animals.

mole · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Act III

Well. They twist it to mean 'sonovab1tch.'

I made a similar mistake when a little girl was telling me her hamster was going to have babies soon.
There happened to be a pregnant woman in the lobby, so I asked, "Like her?"
Yep. Got a reaction there.

happeningthang · Joined: 26 Apr 2003

I could never decide if Kep-sekki (dog baby) was a literal translation of 'son-of-a-bitch', or a confucianist 'lowest of the low' reference.

If it's translated from English then I'd guess the term is as recent as the Korean War. If it predates the war then, I imagine, it's an insult calling someone, not just a dog, but a dog's baby - as low as you could get in a Confucianist heirarchy.

Any ideas?

kermo · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:04 pm Post subject:

I think it's less to do with status, and more to do with implicating yo' momma.