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Pick a page quote: Insulting from Behind the Language Barrier
29th Mar '24 4:53:26 PM
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Vote on a page quote for the TLP draft Insulting from Behind the Language BarrierGus: [in Greek to Ian] When my people were writing philosophy, your people were still swinging from trees.
Toula: [to Ian] ...He likes you.
Suspect: [in Russian] American police are a joke, no one is afraid of them.
Daughter: He says America is a great country.
(in Mothertongue) "Please continue to spread the stench of your diseased genitalia all over base." (Switches back to English) "Enjoy your day."
— Professor Grafton, Motherland: Fort Salem
Bart: [in French] My father. What a buffoon.
Homer: You hear that, Marge? My boy speaks French!
(thinking) Oh, here it is. "Kemosabe: Apache expression for a horse's rear end"… what the hey?
— The Lone Ranger, The Far Side
Ron Weasley: Hey, pea brain!
Mountain troll: (confused) Huh?
"This fucking guy, I'm telling you."
— Tony Montana to his guards after talking with Alberto in Spanish, Scarface (1983)
