Onyhoo, I've been an Esperantist for, well, over half a century. At some point I decided I wanted a minced oath that was satisfying to say but wasn't gross or truly offensive. "Sankta mardo en semajno" has eight syllables in a good punchy trochaic tetrameter, and means literally "Holy Tuesday in a week". But if you change the second letter of "mardo" to "e"...
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Onyhoo, I've been an Esperantist for, well, over half a century. At some point I decided I wanted a minced oath that was satisfying to say but wasn't gross or truly offensive. "Sankta mardo en semajno" has eight syllables in a good punchy trochaic tetrameter, and means literally "Holy Tuesday in a week". But if you change the second letter of "mardo" to "e"...
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