Posted on 09/22/2017 10:46:29 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
SEOUL, South Korea — Famous for using bombastic, derogatory and often-awkward English slams against enemies, North Korean state media sent people scrambling for dictionaries Friday with a dispatch that quotes leader Kim Jong Un calling President Donald Trump “the mentally deranged U.S. dotard.”
The what?
Dotard means a person in a feeble or childish state due to old age. It’s a translation of a Korean word, “neukdari,” which is a derogatory reference to an old person.
It was used in an unusual direct statement from Kim that the Korean Central News Agency transmitted verbatim in response to Trump’s speech at the U.N. this week, in which he mocked Kim as a “Rocket Man” on a “suicide mission,” and said that if the U.S. is “forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.”
Past KCNA reports have used the Korean word against South Korean conservatives, but they rarely translate it as dotard.
Sometimes, it is translated into the neutral “old people” or omitted, depending on the context or the importance of the statement. KCNA last used the word in February to describe supporters of ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye, whom it also called “neukdari” and a “prostitute.” Before that, KCNA called Park’s conservative predecessor, Lee Myung-bak, “the traitor like a dotard.”
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main screen turn on
how are you dotards?
Feeling a bit dotty today,
I thought that Asians had great respect for old people.
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Tomorrow’s Big Media headlines will feature some anti-American freak who simply HAD to convince DMV to let her put this on a license plate.
Using an insult that is so obscure that it requires explaining is a fail.
Meeting up with friends for a few brewskies tonight. I should be pretty dotardly by midnight.
This was a term used once in LOTR which was written by J R R Tolkien who was quite the linguist. This was the only time I’ve seen it in public usage until Fat Boy used it. Maybe he’s a LOTR fan?
I wish Trump would wear a DOTARD hat. :-)
I think he meant “retard”.
No. He may be a brutal, tyrannical, communist, overgrown spoiled adolescent with a Napolean complex, but he’d never stoop to being -— POLITICALLY INCORRECT!
Now that is incongruously funny!
Always remember to cross your t’s and dotard your eyes.
Dotard: that’s what Kim Jong’s mother called him after he got a bad grade in schoool.
I once saw a racist rant to behold when a Japanese girl that I knew in college told her mother that she was marrying a white guy (not me but a friend of mine). Friend’s reaction was, “Cool, I’ll save a lot of money when I don’t go to Japan to see your stupid ass.”
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