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[hiromichi]

What does a phrase "Nur Nurny Nur Nur" mean?


There is lots of good, hard-hitting stuff about the imbecilities of religious fanatics and frauds of all stripes, but the tone is smug and the logic occasionally sloppy. Dawkins fans accustomed to his elegant prose might be surprised to come across such vulgarisms as �sucking up to God� and �Nur Nurny Nur Nur� (here the author, in a dubious polemical ploy, is imagining his theological adversary as a snotty playground brat).
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Hiromichi

[Mister Micawber]

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'Nur Nurny Nur Nur' is the onomatopoetic representation of the verbal chanted jeer that schoolchildren through the generations have directed in scorn at less adept peers. It can also be represented as 'nya nya nya nyaa nya'. It is sybolic of childish scorn at another's efforts.
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[hiromichi]

Mister Micawber, I get it. Thank you very much for your reply.
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Hiromichi