Re: [Finale] Bekakt

2006-10-11 Thread John T Sylvanis
For your information, most of the Central European languages have one form or another of 'bekakte'. It comes from kaka which means (sorry for the coming expletive) shit. In Hungarian it's kaka (the 'a' pronounced like the English 'u' in hut, in Rumanian it's cacat (the first 'a' being pronounced li

Re: [Finale] Bekakt

2006-10-11 Thread Daniel Wolf
Will Denayer wrote: Hi all, Just for what it is worth, the most precise translation of bekakt(e) is 'full of shit', but it actually means pretentious, noisy without content, little bourgeois-like (which has always been an insult in Yiddish). Still trying to figure out Finale, but doing well in

[Finale] Bekakt

2006-10-11 Thread Will Denayer
Hi all, Just for what it is worth, the most precise translation of bekakt(e) is 'full of shit', but it actually means pretentious, noisy without content, little bourgeois-like (which has always been an insult in Yiddish). Still trying to figure out Finale, but doing well in languages ... Best, Will