[lit-ideas] Re: Masterly (or Personly) Outcomes
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:21:30 EST
"Fag" used to be a cigarette here, a few decades ago. That was
post-Dickensian etc. use of faggots for bundles of branches. My children have
finally
stopped giggling when I read a book aloud and "Jodie was gay that day". Now I
wonder how long it will be before they giggle at "lame". "Sweet" seems
already on its way out to the old generation (anyone over 18).
Julie Krueger
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Over here 'fag' is a slang word for cigarette. I once got an extremely odd
expression from an American when I told him I was 'heading out for a fag'.
Thankfully, I don't smoke anymore.
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And then there's the slang-across-dialects issue. It cracked me up to learn
(was it some glossary of UK slang someone posted here, or did I get it
elsewhere??) that "fanny" in the UK is (or at least used to be -- Judy?) slang
for
vagina. While here, it is an almost unused "polite" slang term instead of
"butt" or "ass", more along the lines of "tush" or "derriere".
Which of course gives the use by an American in Britain of "yes, I'm looking
for a fanny pack for sale" a whole new meaning.
Julie Krueger
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You gotta love the dog-walkers references to number one and number two.
And the word lingerie was imported by the Brits to avoid having to say
undergarments.
And people used to cover up piano legs to prevent the male mind's
slippage to women's legs.
But one of the funniest things I ever heard was that libraries in New
Zealand (as late as the fifties, I was told) used to shelve male and
female authors separately.
Ursula
contemplating the varieties of sexual congress on her bookshelves...
Snuggling under the dustcovers, their spines atingle, their hardbacks
bristling, their frontispieces rustling, their glossaries opening up,
their forewards not at all backward.
I'm sure some of the books are making little booklets even as I write.
Mike Geary wrote:
> I'm not sure why we love those words so much, but I learned just a few
> days ago that the reference to white meat and dark meat on chickens
> evolved to let us avoid those words that might bring to mind women's
> body parts. Ya gotta love horny humanity. I assume it's all
> humanity. But I don't know if all cultures use sex words to giggle
> over or if all throw around scatological words like monkeys flinging
> feces.
>
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
>
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