What is a wandering minstrel-cum-clown? Does Russia still have them?
What is a wandering minstrel-cum-clown? Does Russia still have them?
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"cum" is Latin for "with" and is sometimes used in English to show that something is two things at once, so "minstrel-cum-clown" would be someone who is both a minstrel and a clown
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Prominent historical title for Putin.
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I'm sorry. What is a WHAT?
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Dude. Just look at the referenced image. It is an image of text.
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I believe it means minstrels who became clowns.
I've heard this before from a Russian speaker. I don't understand how it got written this way. It drives me a little nuts trying to imagine how it became written as such. A translation that got fucked repeatedly until finally it was only bots reprinting it?