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Latvia — Phrase #9

🎭#9 Cultural Special

Pidars

/ˈpidɑrs/
Literal: (Slur from Russian)
Feels like: A Soviet-era Russian borrowing that persists in Latvian profanity — evidence of how occupation leaves linguistic traces in a culture's swearing
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