Exactly.
As for the Danish frøken in the picture Moose referred to, she is indeed
performing a noble deed :-)
Cheers,
Nathan
On 5 Jan 2014, at 21:55, "philippe.amard" <philippe.amard@xxxxxx> wrote:
> I can't speak for Nathan but I suspect the systematic use of the term
> comes from our common friend Lluis who lives in Barcelona.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Barcelona+Lug+Gathering+2013/DSCF0179.JPG.html
> Second on the right whereas Nathan is second on the left - your
> servant at the far end next to a senorita ...
>
>
> More importantly, here is one of his sites, well worth a LONg stroll
> IMHO - Features senoritas, you have been warned ;-)
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/
>
> Amities
> Philippe
>
>
>
> Le 5 janv. 14 à 21:21, Moose a écrit :
>
>> On 1/5/2014 6:13 AM, Bob Whitmire 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.
>>
>> Read carefully what is written carefully. :-)
>>
>> "It appears list usage is "any woman young and attractive 'ENOUGH'
>> that 'I' like looking at her image"
>>
>> "Young enough" for me is probably not young enough for the few
>> whippersnappers on the list.
>>
>> "Attractive enough" for you may or may not be attractive enough for
>> me. ;-)
>>
>> I was saying, or trying to get across, that the definition as used
>> here is very loosely defined, and by whoever uses it.
>>
>>> 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 agree 100%. My suggestion was that, as a code word, freighted with
>> meaning beyond the dictionary definition,
>> translation into other languages may not work.
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> And that would probably work, have the same sense of additional
>> meaning, for fewer here than does Señorita. Whereas
>> Polish "Miss"* doesn't have that same sense, "Several Misses in this
>> week's post." isn't all that enticing, to me.
>>
>> Greek Χάνετε is indeed Greek to me.
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Yup, but, to this reader, has often strayed far from that origin. I
>> sometimes see it applied to middle aged women, some
>> of whom aren't particularly attractive to me. Thus the 'definition'
>> above.
>>
>> This started out half tongue in cheek, but has deteriorated into
>> excessive seriousness.
>>
>> Where's The Fun Moose
>>
>> * I hope the on-line dictionaries have not led me astray. The only
>> other Polish speaker I know is my late wife's mother,
>> now 96. And conversations with her have a tendency to go off track,
>> even become surreal at times.
>>
>> --
>> What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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> One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible
> to the eye. Antoine de Saint Exupéry in Le Petit Prince.
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