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April 21, 2007

Great racial insults of our time #1

As shouted at me in the livestock market in Jijiga in Ethiopia's Somali region a couple of days back:

"Medabkiisu waa sambab."

Which, in Somali, means something like:

"You look like a lung."

As in pink and spongy I presume.

Posted by aheavens at April 21, 2007 7:31 PM