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Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 3/1/2014: a serious Polish señorita (with boyfrien

Subject: Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 3/1/2014: a serious Polish señorita (with boyfriend)
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 14:17:30 +0000
Bob points make sense to me, Moose. I accept the accuracy of your complaint (of 
course :-)) but the word has become a code, really.

Did I use the words, “shag” or “roger” in your presence, Bob?  I can’t remember 
. . .

Chris

On 5 Jan 2014, at 14:13, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

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