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What language is graffiti written in? (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee to c/languages@lemmy.world

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I'm not sure if this is something you guys can or want to help with. The bathroom at my current job is completely free of graffiti except for the words "itik nuliak" written very clearly in Sharpie. It's not a language local to where I live and putting it in Google translate doesn't do anything. It's been bothering me.

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[–] Thade780@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It's Inuit. Itik means anus, while nuliak means intercourse.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 0 points 8 months ago

Eskimo butt sex?

[–] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Oh, I know who it was then!

Ok, I have a red Sharpie, how do I correct it to what they were clearly trying to say?

[–] swab148@startrek.website 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just write "butt sex" lol

[–] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah but I'd like to correct their "anus intercourse" to whatever the Inuit for but sex actually is. it'd freak my colleague out.

You know like grading a paper.

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Plus, now I want to write butt sex in Inuit everywhere, so it’d be better to get it right

[–] swab148@startrek.website 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just from a quick search, it looks like they were correct.

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago

Fuck yeah

[–] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Kurt?

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago

Based on your other description of Kurt and my username… probably

If there’s no correcting to be done, may I suggest responding to use a condom in Inuit?

[–] KISSmyOS@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago

Checks out.