English

I know there's been a lot of discussion about the importance or otherwise of correct English. Try this from Yahoo News recently:

Generally viewed as being in a chronic state of disrepair, Mr Wilson had apparently expressed concern about the Czech-built Let-410 before the crash.

OK it's clear they didn't really mean the unfortunate Mr Wilson was in a state of disrepair - but if they'd been quoting some National Accident Research Centre or one of those addresses that stands for an institution, such as the White House?

LOL - great example, if I may say so, of sheer laziness by the writer, who clearly didn't bother to read through his/her text (unless, more worryingly, they just didn't notice?). Is re-drafting a forgotten skill on the fibre-optic internet super-highway? Mr Wilson should sue for libel!

Well, perhaps--but I've known some people who (psychologically and/or physiologically) do rather fit that description... --C.K.

English is the best language in the world - because it has *so many* juicy words for the rear end (e.g. bottom, buttocks, booty, derriere, backside, seat of learning, nates, bum - gee I know so many of them, I am a real philologist - if that is the right word) - unless, of course, there is some other language which has still more good words for the most beautiful part of the human anatomy (and there may well be, because the only languages I speak are English and Swedish).

I cannot help being amused that one of the common German words for this entity is "Po", which in English is a child's word for a container a child places its bottom on.

Oh no, that word isn't Po it's Popo . But like people who rape English by writing ur instead of your, people us Po instead of Popo. But both is children language which sounds much lovelier than that crude "Hintern" in the normal language. I like most "gluteus maximus, the most beautiful muscle of a woman" (I don't talk admiringly about men's backsides )

Popo, same in French
Now don't ask me to spell it (popo or popot or potpot?), you just say it but you never have the opportunity to write it.

I thought Gluteus Maximus was a Roman general until I discovered spanking...

barretthunter
I thought Gluteus Maximus was a Roman general until I discovered spanking..

and Podex was his adjutant

Popo is children language, Podex mothers language

child " oh, my Popo hurts" mother: "you'll get some more on your Podex, if you don't behave now."

Fascinating! Now as -po is sometimes used in German as a familiar abbreviation for Polizei or Polizinst(in), as in Vopo, Gestapo, might a Popo be a Polizistin with a nice Po?