But I added "with boyfriend" just to entice both genders (and sexual
orientations ;-))
Cheers,
Nathan
On 5 Jan 2014, at 17:39, Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
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