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So remember Friday, when we all discovered that PSY, (formerly) the world's favorite horse-dancing Asian pop star, had rapped some (seriously) anti-American lyrics in 2004? And remember Monday, when everyone freaked out that President Obama would still shake his hand at the White House? Well, about that: something may have been lost in the original translation — including all of the explicit parts, and most of the parts about killing American soldiers. The Washington Post's Max Fisher, an Atlantic alum who has been on the PSY beat before your ears even heard "Gangnam Style" for the first time, did his homework and asked Korean experts about PSY's (not so) anti-American lyrics that got the YouTube sensation of 2012 into so much trouble.

Here's that widely circulated translation of PSY's lyrics, which started making the rounds after one of those "iReport" pieces of citizen journalism at CNN:

You know what isn't good? Google Translate. Google Translate gave us this weird translation when we plugged in the Korean:

Fucking Sy rap: Iraqi prisoners tortured Dan and the amount of room for gardeners Advisor told you to Shit on the amount of room for gardenersBaby Amy daughter-in-law Abby Ofay killVery slowly killing him suffer.

Which is why Fisher sought out Korean experts (graduate students, native speakers, Sino-North Korea coordinators) and came up with three translations: