Remember how, when the #jcbkikhudayi twitter trend happened it really foxed people? Is it a new word or phrase? Is it a foreign language? Does it mean anything to anyone; if so what does it mean? Well now we have Sco Pa Tu Manaa – that is puzzling Twitter too.
The term kept popping up on people’s Twitter feeds and their timelines.
Lots of times! Too many times!
People were really irritated, by now often “Sco Pa Tu Manaa” kept coming up on the screen.
Beats me why a harmless string of syllables would enrage someone so much --- but apparently, it did. Probably because no one knew what it meant?
So this became yet another strange term that people hadn’t heard of before and understood nothing of.
People tried various dictionary apps, translation services --- to try and figure out what in the world this strange term means.
This and other Twitter users shared this as the meaning. However, others said this is not true; that this was just the screenshot of a random entry in the urban dictionary to try and explain the term.
Some Twitter users were so exasperated seeing Sco pa tu manaa turn up repeatedly, they went and muted the term so it wouldn’t keep cropping up.
It’s like the torch switch that broke while on --- and just won’t go off!
There’s another indecipherable phrase? This is too much!
After some amount of detective work, people discovered the source of Sco pa tu manaa – it is a phrase from a song.
It is a song called Daavi Neba by Kawoula Biov featuring Patapaa. The song has a frenetic beat that is crazily catchy with some equally frenetic dancing – also it has the phrase Sco pa tu manaa.
Some say it’s a nonsense phrase that means nothing; some say it means “I’ll hit you”. Some say it’s a Zambian word; others say that its meaning changes in different languages, which is not untrue. When I asked Google to translate Sco pa tu manaa, it detected ---- get this --- Gujarati! And it told me that it means ‘believe me’. Clearly, Google can get it wrong.
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