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Old 21st February 2007, 12:54 PM   #4
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Perhaps my imagination is being overactive, but a slight editing of the original post yields another possible interpretation:
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An Englishman was cataloging blades in the Afghanistan area in the early 1900s. He asked his native helper to hand him the next blade and the Afghan said "choora".Choora means roughly to be emasculated. It is a derogatory term to tell someone that he cannot be with a woman as he has lost his manhood.
Is it possible that the "native helper", in response to some real or imagined slight, was taking advantage of the Englishman's linguistic ignorance to insult him to his face with impunity, adding an unintended noun to the collecting lexicon in the process?
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