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Let's see how many LL readers get this one.

(The writing in red is the Japanese transcription of a vulgar Chinese expression, of which the small words at the bottom are a tame English translation.)

Selected readings

• "Ta Mother Noodle" (8/10/23)
• "Blindly busy" (8/26/18)
• "Carrie Lam's mother" (1/30/22)
• "The sound of swearing" (12/2/22)
• "TMD and LPM: a tale of five 'mothers'" (6/25/22)
• "mother-bleeping X’s" (Pinyin News, 12/8/06)
• "Deplorable words" (Language Hat, 8/2/04)
• "Tamade" (Language Hat, 7/23/05)
• For an annotated translation of Lu Xun's (1881-1936) celebrated essay on TMD (tamade) by Huichieh Loy in "From a Singapore Angle", see here.

[thanks to Francis and Jin]