Me and some of the rest of you boys don't even need the "young" part, and maybe
not even the "attractive" side if we be talking about traditional cultural
concepts of attractive.
Me, I think language has a special niche for words that come to mean things
outside what they normally mean. Let's see. Me and Chris and John and Piers,
for example, think different about words such as roger, and shag. Their UK
slang definitions don't have anything to do with their proper meanings, but
they work just fine in the sense of imparting certain other meanings. And we
won't even talking about knockin' up a friend. <g>
For me, senorita is just a code word, or a colloquialism, to let me know I
might need to pay a little extra attention. I'm sure there are folks here that
could make a case for sexism and ageism and dumbism and oldfartism, but I think
it works just fine, not that I'd be opposed to using fraulein when appropriate,
or even when not.
As I recall, the term señorita came into usage on this list as a result of
Nathan's posts from Alicante and environs, in which case many if not most of
the subjects actually were senoritas.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Jan 4, 2014, at 7:48 PM, Moose wrote:
> It appears list usage is "any woman young and attractive enough that I like
> looking at her image" Works for me, mostly,
> but I wonder if we should be branching out into other languages with it?
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