It's a code word or clue to me that I can skip that post ;-)
Tina
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 9:13 AM, 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.
>
> --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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