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- From: godfrey@vxdesy.desy.de
- Subject: Re: Twatology (was Andy the Canadian twat)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.195333.1@vxdesy.desy.de>
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- References: <199212211320.AA16864@das.wang.com> <1992Dec21.155859.23475@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:53:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.155859.23475@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
- >>In: <102586@netnews.upenn.edu>
- >>weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) wrote:
- >> Subject: Re: Andy the Canadian twat
- >>
- >>>In article <1992Dec18.044635.18892@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>, ecl@cbnewsj (Evelyn C.
- >>>>As a woman reader of s.c.j, I find the use of the word "twat" in this
- >>>>context (and indeed, in any context) offensive, and would ask that
- >>>>posters refrain from using it.
- >>>
- >>>It's also atrocious grammar. The masculine is twit.
- >
- > Perhaps I'm just falling for the bait here, but I don't believe the two words
- > to be related. "Twit" comes from the Old English "witan," meaning "to
- > reproach," with the noun eventually developing from the verb "to twit."
- > --
- > ted frank | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu
- > standard disclaimers | void where prohibited
- > the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
- I am inclined to agree with Ted - twat can be applied to a male or female,
- just as the harsher word for the female genitalia may be applied to either,
- but in practise is more commonly applied to males.
-
- Laurence
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