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by emre 3275 days ago
love the name!
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For those missing it - "kolpa" is slang in Turkish for a fake thing - widely applicable. It could be a con, or a fake person (a bullshitter), or just something that's a bad substitute for the original, like a "SQNY" brand walkman knockoff. Allegedly from the Italian "Colpo".
Also "colpa" in Italian means guilt.
...which is cognate to the English "culpable".