[Ads-l] More on Kavanaugh yearbook

[Ben Zimmer]

On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 9:16 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Maggie Haberman of the NYT has allegedly Tweeted that "Urban Dictionary has
> the definition of 'boof' that I recall from high school in the 1980s and it
> wasn't flatulence, fwiw."  But there's so much Cyrillic script on the page
> that I recommend extreme caution:
>
> https://twitter.com/maggienyt/status/1045417547594698753?lang=bg
>
> Newsweek, however, accepts that is was really her:
>
>
> https://www.newsweek.com/devils-triangle-boofed-mean-brett-kavanaugh-1142748


For some reason you have a parameter on the Twitter URL that renders the
page in Bulgarian ("?lang=bg") -- hence the Cyrillic script. Remove the
parameter and everything is rendered in Latin script as per usual.

--bgz

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