vulgar
The error came as Xi visited Myanmar to meet with Burmese State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi to discuss infrastructure plans.
Suu Kyi posted about the meeting on her Facebook page, where the comment section filled with references to the vulgar translation. —J. Edward Moreno, 18 Jan. 2020 {2:19 PM EST}
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adjective: 1. characterized by ignorance of or lack of good breeding or taste: vulgar ostentation. 2. indecent; obscene; lewd: a vulgar work; a vulgar gesture. 3. crude; coarse; unrefined: a vulgar peasant. 4. of, relating to, or constituting the ordinary people in a society: the vulgar masses. 5. current; popular; common: a vulgar success; vulgar beliefs. 6. spoken by, or being in the language spoken by, the people generally; vernacular: vulgar tongue. 7. lacking in distinction, aesthetic value, or charm; banal; ordinary: a vulgar painting. 8. marked by lack of taste, culture, delicacy, manners, etc: vulgar behavior; vulgar language. 9. (often capital; usually prenominal) denoting a form of a language, esp of Latin, current among common people, esp at a period when the formal language is archaic and not in general spoken use. 10. lacking in cultivation, perception, or taste : coarse. 11. morally crude, undeveloped, or unregenerate : gross. 12. ostentatious or excessive in expenditure or display : pretentious. 13. offensive in language : earthy. 14. lewdly or profanely indecent. 15. generally used, applied, or accepted. 16. understood in or having the ordinary sense: they reject the vulgar conception of miracle. —W. R. Inge. 17. vernacular: the vulgar name of a plant. 18. of or relating to the common people : plebeian. 19. generally current : public: the vulgar opinion of that time. 20. of the usual, typical, or ordinary kind. archaic: 1. the common people. 2. of, relating to, or current among the great mass of common people, in contrast to the educated, cultured, or privileged; ordinary. 3. (as collective noun; preceded by the): the vulgar. obsolete: the vernacular. Related Words: boorish, naughty, tawdry, profane, tasteless, ribald, off-color, disgusting, obscene, impolite, suggestive, indecent, crude, scatological, nasty, filthy, coarse, conversational, colloquial, vernacular. Synonyms: baseborn, boorish, colloquial, common, coarse, humble, ignoble, inelegant, inferior, low, low-life, lowborn, lower-class, lowly, lumpen, mean, plebeian, prole, proletarian, ribald, rude, unrefined, unwashed. Antonyms: aristocratic, blue-blooded, genteel, gentle, grand, great, high, highborn, highbred, lofty, noble, patrician, upper-class, upper-crust, wellborn. Synonym Study 1: Common, vulgar, ordinary refer, often with derogatory connotations of cheapness or inferiority, to what is usual or most often experienced. Common applies to what is accustomed, usually experienced, or inferior, to the opposite of what is exclusive or aristocratic: The park is used by the common people. Vulgar properly means belonging to the people, or characteristic of common people; it connotes low taste, coarseness, or ill breeding: the vulgar view of things; vulgar in manners and speech. Ordinary refers to what is to be expected in the usual order of things; it means average or below average: That is a high price for something of such ordinary quality. Synonym Study 2: Common, ordinary, plain, familiar, popular, vulgar mean generally met with and not in any way special, strange, or unusual. Common implies usual everyday quality or frequency of occurrence: a common error; lacked common honesty; and may additionally suggest inferiority or coarseness: common manners. Ordinary stresses conformance in quality or kind with the regular order of things: an ordinary pleasant summer day; a very ordinary sort of man. Plain is likely to suggest homely simplicity: plain hard-working people. Familiar stresses the fact of being generally known and easily recognized: a familiar melody. Popular applies to what is accepted by or prevalent among people in general sometimes in contrast to upper classes or special groups: a writer of popular romances. Vulgar, otherwise similar to popular, is likely to carry derogatory connotations (as of inferiority or coarseness): souvenirs designed to appeal to the vulgar taste. Synonym Study 3: Coarse, vulgar, gross, obscene, ribald mean offensive to good taste or morals. Coarse implies roughness, rudeness, or crudeness of spirit, behavior, or language: found the coarse humor of coworkers offensive. Vulgar often implies boorishness or ill-breeding: a loud vulgar belch. Gross implies extreme coarseness and insensitiveness: gross eating habits. Obscene applies to anything strongly repulsive to the sense of decency and propriety especially in sexual matters: obscene language not allowed on the air. Ribald applies to what is amusingly or picturesquely vulgar or irreverent or mildly indecent: entertained the campers with ribald folk songs. Origin: 1350–1400; Middle English < Latin vulgāris, equivalent to vulg(us) the general public + -āris -ar1. C14: from Latin vulgāris belonging to the multitude, from vulgus the common people. First Known Use: 14th century. History and Etymology: Middle English, from Latin vulgaris of the mob, vulgar, from volgus, vulgus mob, common people. Added: 12.30.19 {10:37 PM} Updated: 18 Jan. 2020 {12:29 PM} Sources: 1, 2.
Suu Kyi posted about the meeting on her Facebook page, where the comment section filled with references to the vulgar translation. —J. Edward Moreno, 18 Jan. 2020 {2:19 PM EST}
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adjective: 1. characterized by ignorance of or lack of good breeding or taste: vulgar ostentation. 2. indecent; obscene; lewd: a vulgar work; a vulgar gesture. 3. crude; coarse; unrefined: a vulgar peasant. 4. of, relating to, or constituting the ordinary people in a society: the vulgar masses. 5. current; popular; common: a vulgar success; vulgar beliefs. 6. spoken by, or being in the language spoken by, the people generally; vernacular: vulgar tongue. 7. lacking in distinction, aesthetic value, or charm; banal; ordinary: a vulgar painting. 8. marked by lack of taste, culture, delicacy, manners, etc: vulgar behavior; vulgar language. 9. (often capital; usually prenominal) denoting a form of a language, esp of Latin, current among common people, esp at a period when the formal language is archaic and not in general spoken use. 10. lacking in cultivation, perception, or taste : coarse. 11. morally crude, undeveloped, or unregenerate : gross. 12. ostentatious or excessive in expenditure or display : pretentious. 13. offensive in language : earthy. 14. lewdly or profanely indecent. 15. generally used, applied, or accepted. 16. understood in or having the ordinary sense: they reject the vulgar conception of miracle. —W. R. Inge. 17. vernacular: the vulgar name of a plant. 18. of or relating to the common people : plebeian. 19. generally current : public: the vulgar opinion of that time. 20. of the usual, typical, or ordinary kind. archaic: 1. the common people. 2. of, relating to, or current among the great mass of common people, in contrast to the educated, cultured, or privileged; ordinary. 3. (as collective noun; preceded by the): the vulgar. obsolete: the vernacular. Related Words: boorish, naughty, tawdry, profane, tasteless, ribald, off-color, disgusting, obscene, impolite, suggestive, indecent, crude, scatological, nasty, filthy, coarse, conversational, colloquial, vernacular. Synonyms: baseborn, boorish, colloquial, common, coarse, humble, ignoble, inelegant, inferior, low, low-life, lowborn, lower-class, lowly, lumpen, mean, plebeian, prole, proletarian, ribald, rude, unrefined, unwashed. Antonyms: aristocratic, blue-blooded, genteel, gentle, grand, great, high, highborn, highbred, lofty, noble, patrician, upper-class, upper-crust, wellborn. Synonym Study 1: Common, vulgar, ordinary refer, often with derogatory connotations of cheapness or inferiority, to what is usual or most often experienced. Common applies to what is accustomed, usually experienced, or inferior, to the opposite of what is exclusive or aristocratic: The park is used by the common people. Vulgar properly means belonging to the people, or characteristic of common people; it connotes low taste, coarseness, or ill breeding: the vulgar view of things; vulgar in manners and speech. Ordinary refers to what is to be expected in the usual order of things; it means average or below average: That is a high price for something of such ordinary quality. Synonym Study 2: Common, ordinary, plain, familiar, popular, vulgar mean generally met with and not in any way special, strange, or unusual. Common implies usual everyday quality or frequency of occurrence: a common error; lacked common honesty; and may additionally suggest inferiority or coarseness: common manners. Ordinary stresses conformance in quality or kind with the regular order of things: an ordinary pleasant summer day; a very ordinary sort of man. Plain is likely to suggest homely simplicity: plain hard-working people. Familiar stresses the fact of being generally known and easily recognized: a familiar melody. Popular applies to what is accepted by or prevalent among people in general sometimes in contrast to upper classes or special groups: a writer of popular romances. Vulgar, otherwise similar to popular, is likely to carry derogatory connotations (as of inferiority or coarseness): souvenirs designed to appeal to the vulgar taste. Synonym Study 3: Coarse, vulgar, gross, obscene, ribald mean offensive to good taste or morals. Coarse implies roughness, rudeness, or crudeness of spirit, behavior, or language: found the coarse humor of coworkers offensive. Vulgar often implies boorishness or ill-breeding: a loud vulgar belch. Gross implies extreme coarseness and insensitiveness: gross eating habits. Obscene applies to anything strongly repulsive to the sense of decency and propriety especially in sexual matters: obscene language not allowed on the air. Ribald applies to what is amusingly or picturesquely vulgar or irreverent or mildly indecent: entertained the campers with ribald folk songs. Origin: 1350–1400; Middle English < Latin vulgāris, equivalent to vulg(us) the general public + -āris -ar1. C14: from Latin vulgāris belonging to the multitude, from vulgus the common people. First Known Use: 14th century. History and Etymology: Middle English, from Latin vulgaris of the mob, vulgar, from volgus, vulgus mob, common people. Added: 12.30.19 {10:37 PM} Updated: 18 Jan. 2020 {12:29 PM} Sources: 1, 2.