Just heard this a few days ago about an old lady in a home for sufferers of dementia.
This old lady used to be a high-flying interpreter (I think she might’ve worked for the UN). In her senile dementia state, she got very bad-tempered, and would swear at the workers in the home, each time in a different language. The workers took it good-naturedly.
One day, she gave a long delivery. One of them said to her, “Magda, we don’t understand what you’re saying.”
Magda said, “I’ve said f..k off to you in Italian, Spanish, German, French, Hungarian, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian...”
(England, 2013)
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