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So, 'uff da' could be the equivalent of the little anger signs we see in cartoons:
#*!^/*#@!
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#*!^/*#@! always puts me in mind of something censorable, but I suppose that's just #*!^/*# me.
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Well, I suppose there might be 'uff da' and tuffuh 'uff da'!
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...but I suppose that's just #*!^/*# me.
Why the @#$%^*%$ would *we want to do that to you?
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I've heard Uff-da replace 'ouch', 'yuck', 'sheesh', 'you idiot'... and, of course, a few I won't bother *spelling out for 'sall.
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I believe "uff da" to be the Scandinavian equivalent of what Charlie Brown means, in the Peanuts cartoons, when he says "Good grief!"
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"uff da" is actually an expression that is designed to put a barricade between the sayer and the listener. Often expanded to be "uff da wall." Sort a like the way the French think of Humpty Dumpty.
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"We were much impresses by the performance of the students and the interpreting facilities."
Well I'm not much impresses.
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Dear Ted ~
I am very happy to hear that you are "not much impresses." The height if the use of impressment to provide crews for British naval vessels was many years ago, but the practice obviously continues in the Mother County, as shown by the news article from which you cite.
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Latin "pietas" (from which we get the English word piety) and "pius", someone who possesses "pietas", is a word that has no true English synonym. It's a mosaic of too many different virtues - it's a mixture of being kind, valorous, honorable, faithful to the gods, etc.
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