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("that cunt's smokin'!"). The serious problem of translation tyee.ca was presented by Dr Danko Šipka. The wealth of Serbian swear words is a particular problem to English translators, with such variants as tyee.ca Jebem ti majku!, Jebem ti miša! and Jebem ti kuću poganu! (fuck your mother! fuck tyee.ca your rat! fuck your infidel house!)." Because English does not allow more than "fuck you!" or "screw you!," the only meaningful resolution is for Serbian-English dictionaries to contain notes marking gradations of "light," "common," "forceful" and "exceptionally forceful" swear words. Using the Serbian anti-NATO slogans: "Klintone, možeš da nam pušiš/Širak nabijem ti Ajfelovu kulu u dupe/Olbrajtovo, kurvo stara" ("Clinton, you can give us a blow job/Chirac, I'll stuff the Eiffel Tower up your ass/Albright, old bitch"), Prof Dr Jochen Raecke showed the difference between Germany in 1945 and Serbia in 1999. After the war, the Germans scrawled graffiti swearing at the occupiers and telling them to go home in English and Russian, not German.
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