Thursday, January 14, 2010

Waxing literary-ic?... literish?...verbose? Whatever!

In tenth grade English we were studying satire and read the Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Beirce. Then we had an assignment to come up with our own satirical definitions of 25 words. One of the ones that I did (and I'm sure a lot of people did this one) was Marriage- the leading cause of divorce. You get the idea.

Well, these aren't exactly like that but not completely unlike it either.

Without any more fan fare I bring you "Ukrainian Devil's Dictionary"



adoption= "I like lots of kids. Can we got to Ukraine and buy some more?!?!"

Crisme= A big holiday at the end of the year where you get presents

fahzzer= a male parent (be he adopted or that other thing)

litter= not big

Mnyummy= what you say when things taste good

muzzer= female parent (see fahzzer)

nakey= without clothes (as in "Elijah is nakey, running down the street")

noah= opposite of yes

pencils= those snack foods that are twisted into a cool shape and sometimes you can dip them in chocolate

plass= what you do when you hand someone the food

spleeping= what you do in bed at night

wa koom= what you use to clean the floor

za= the (as in please plass za salt)

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