Country Matters: Difference between revisions

'''Ophelia:''' Ay, my lord.

'''Hamlet:''' Do you think I meant country matters? }}

* There's another example by Shakespeare in ''[[Othello]]''. In Act 3 Scene 3, Iago tries to insinuate that Desdemona is not as pure as she seems. He uses the phrase "country disposition", alluding to both the stereotype of the open and passionate Venetian woman and, well...you know.

* Shakespeare also has a bilingual example in ''[[Henry V]],'' in which the French-speaking Princess Katherine, getting an English lesson from her lady-in-waiting, is both horrified and amused to discover that the English words "foot" and "gown" (which Katherine and her lady mispronounce as "coun") resemble the French words for "fuck" and "cunt."

'''Ugandans:''' Hasa diga eebowai!

'''Mafala:''' Fuck God right back in his cunt! }}

{{quote|'''Ugandans:''' If you don't like what we say/try living here a couple days./Watch all your friends and family die./Hasa diga eebowai! Fuck you!/Hasa diga eebowai!/Fuck you God in the ass, mouth, and cunt-a,/Fuck you God in the ass, mouth, and cunt-a,/Fuck you God in the ass, mouth, and cunt-a,/Fuck you in the eye!}}

 

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