Jan 19, 2022
petition to start using bitch-kitty
[image transcript: A screenshot from Mary Jo Bang’s translation of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno that reads:
52. Looking at her bitch-kitty face: “Bitch kitty” is a slang term that gestures to the fact that “[t]he thing referred to is very impressive, very difficult, very complicated, very sad, or in some way extraordinary” (Kipfer and Chapman, Dictionary of American Slang, 273). The other two animals cause fear, but this animal, who appears to stand for greed, is the one that provokes the wayfarer’s sense of utter defeat. Dante will later refer to Plutus, the god of wealth, as “humanity’s great enemy” (Canto VI, 115)
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