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English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO] Art/Literary - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters | |||||||
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eunuch Explanation: Oh dear, it's a play on words, and here, specifically, the SOUND of the words! I fear you are going to have great trouble rendering this in Turkish! -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 11 minutes (2017-11-05 18:51:33 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- The point is, we usually pronounce 'UN' as its two letters 'U' 'N', but when they makea longer acronym, like UNESCO, for example, it will be pronounced as yun-esco — as if it were a word in its own right. So here, UNUC becomes yun-uck — which of course phonetically is almost identical to the word 'eunuch'; as we all know, 'eunuchs' have no b*lls, whence the allusion to this imaginary organization's not having the guts to take action: “when it comes down to it they’re no bloody use at all” |
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