Because the need to hook up can strike any place, any time, the folks
behind location-aware social networking app Scruff have provided a
multi-language gay slang dictionary.
The
words themselves are pretty common to all but the newest of gays and
the definitions are pretty sparse, but the selling point is that all of
the words are translated into 41 languages, so you'll know the proper
term for "NSA" almost everywhere you go.
Not all translations are word-for-word, but that's to be expected
when working with slang. Some terms translate strangely - the Japanese
term for "kink" is the English loan word "abnormal" (a-bu-no-ma-ru), for
example - but others are arguably better than their English
counterpart; the German phrase for a "bear chaser", "Bären-Jäger" which
literally translates to "bear hunter", puts a decidedly different spin
on the bear-chaser dynamic.
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