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Dat ass!

by Leke, September 25, 2013

Messages: 13

Language: English

Leke (User's profile) September 25, 2013, 3:43:40 PM

For expressions such as "Dat ass!" (That ass!), I guess it's "Tiun pugon" rather than "Tiu pugo" because it's a shortened form of "Mi ŝatas tiun pugon!".

Is this right?

Nile (User's profile) September 25, 2013, 4:09:39 PM

I always interpreted it as "DAT ASS is (good adjective)".

Vespero_ (User's profile) September 25, 2013, 6:19:20 PM

I've heard "Kia [substantivo]" used in a manner that might be applicable here.

kaŝperanto (User's profile) September 25, 2013, 6:52:53 PM

Vespero_:I've heard "Kia [substantivo]" used in a manner that might be applicable here.
I think this is more in the spirit of the expression. It's kind of like "Such an ass", or "What an ass"

Nile (User's profile) September 27, 2013, 1:29:19 AM

So now, the question is of whether "pugo" means "ass" like "contemptible person" or "butt".
It can only mean the latter, right?

RiotNrrd (User's profile) September 27, 2013, 3:04:43 AM

It's your rear end.

That doesn't necessarily stop anyone from using it in a figurative sense, however, but that's true of any word. So, y'know, someone always could use it somewhat more descriptively. But I have never heard it used in that manner, referring to a contemptible person.

Rejsi (User's profile) September 27, 2013, 3:09:39 AM

Nile:So now, the question is of whether "pugo" means "ass" like "contemptible person" or "butt".
It can only mean the latter, right?
Yeah, "pugo" only refers to your bottom. ridulo.gif

sudanglo (User's profile) September 27, 2013, 10:37:57 AM

A positive vernacular expression used when one sees the buttocks of another (from the Urban Dictionary}.

In that case kia bela pugo!

Nile (User's profile) September 28, 2013, 12:14:46 AM

Yeah, but that still doesn't have "Dat ass!"'s . . . elegance.
It feels weird calling such a silly phrase elegant.

Leke (User's profile) September 28, 2013, 4:52:38 AM

Nile:Yeah, but that still doesn't have "Dat ass!"'s . . . elegance.
It feels weird calling such a silly phrase elegant.
I guess you could shorten it to Kia pugo. I guess this is like the Spanish Que culo.

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