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War on Words! The Dangers of Semantics?

 
 
Reply Sat 8 Sep, 2018 08:30 pm

You say butt; I say tuchas; you say bum; I say derriere. Aren't we talking about the same thing? Is this the dangers of semantics or they different species?

The distinctions kind of elude me.
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glitterbag
 
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Reply Sat 8 Sep, 2018 08:47 pm
@tsarstepan,
Why do you think it's dangerous? (you have heard the word 'hiney' before, right?"
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PUNKEY
 
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Reply Sat 8 Sep, 2018 09:13 pm
We weren’t allowed to say “keister” outside if the house, even though we meant it to mean the sofa bed.
glitterbag
 
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Reply Sat 8 Sep, 2018 09:50 pm
@PUNKEY,
We were never even allowed to call it the 'K" word....you might be grounded for 2 years or exiled to a nunnery.
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Sturgis
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Reply Sat 8 Sep, 2018 11:17 pm
@tsarstepan,
There are subtle differences when speaking of the rump.
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Sun 9 Sep, 2018 12:12 am
April. Rhyming slang.

April in Paris, Paris Aristottle, Aristotle bottle, bottle glass, glass arse.

Easy isn't it.
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jespah
 
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Reply Sun 9 Sep, 2018 07:37 am
I refer you to an expert.
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InfraBlue
 
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Reply Mon 10 Sep, 2018 07:27 am
@tsarstepan,
"Fanny" is benign enough around here. It's dangerous in the UK and places that derive their lingo more directly from there.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Mon 10 Sep, 2018 07:36 am
@InfraBlue,
It's not dangerous, it's a kid's word for vagina. You'll get laughed at if you say 'fanny pack' over here, that's about as dangerous as it gets.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 10 Sep, 2018 07:57 am
I don't intend to butt into this discussion. It's too deeply fill-o-sophical for me.
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najmelliw
 
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Reply Wed 12 Sep, 2018 08:58 am
@tsarstepan,
Well, I know of a certain president who used yet another word for the 'tuchas'. And that probably is different, because he linked it to countries. In Africa, if memory serves... Is that a distinction?
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Wed 12 Sep, 2018 09:11 am
@najmelliw,
Please don't sully one of my all time favorite words as tuchas with such abominable associations. Tuchas is comfort word like meatloaf or lasagna as comfort food. If I can rewrite this in a pithy way, it will be my next a2k signature.
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