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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