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The forgotten 1909 hit that introduced adultery to American popular music (slate.com)
6 points by smacktoward on Sept 2, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


The Esperanto translation the newspaper provides is fairly literal: "Ho! Vi kaprido!" "Kapro" is the Esperanto noun for "goat," and the "-id" suffix means "child." So it is translating "kid" as "a baby goat." Is there a better translation? I guess it depends on whether "kid" implied a baby goat or a human child back in 1909. If it meant a human child (which I'm guessing), then a better translation might be "injo," which is the affectionate form of "ido," "ino," or (putting them together) "idino."


Did you even read the article or is this just tolling? Or a bot?




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