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[Jonathan Lighter]

Bulgarian!!!???

Wow! I think I'll keep it!!

JL

On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 10:21 AM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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