Why?

It started out as a phrase to avoid swearing in front of the little 'uns, or on forums. "Hell's teeth" is an oldish English expression, and "Satan's kittens" just sort of came out... When the Mrs ran it through in Finnish, it still sounded good. Out of interest, I then asked around for other languages.

Can you make a translation in another language? Please mail me

Translations

It needs to be a direct translation as possible, which can prove a challenge as some languages/cultures may not have concepts of, say, hell and Satan, or even kittens, well, everyone knows about kittens, even if it's just as lunch... It would be nice to have the expression both the native alphabet/script and with pronunciation in the Latin/Roman alphabet - see the Ancient Greek, Mandarin, Russian and Serbian translations, for examples.

To help, the 'proper' format should be "(The) Teeth of Hell and (the) kittens of Satan", or instead of "Satan", you can also substitute "The Devil", to give "(The) Teeth of Hell and (the) kittens of the Devil".

According to the Scientific American Trivia web pages that "there are around 6,800 main languages in the world, not including dialects." and Omniglot has details of over 150 writing systems, so that should keep things busy for a while...

The real Satan's Kittens!

I thought the phrase Satan's kittens was pretty unique! However, after looking at the visitor statistics for this page, I saw someone had come here from Google, looking for "satan's kittens". Out of curiosity I did a search... "Satan's Kittens" were a fighter squadron VF-191 of the United States Navy. As well as F4 Phantoms and F8 Corsairs, they flew, appropriately F6 Hellcats and F14 Tomcats. I am currently putting together a site about Fighting Nineteen/VF-19/VF-191 Satan's Kittens. If there is anything specific you are looking for, I might be able to help, or if you would like to contribute, please contact me

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