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- From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
- Subject: Re: Twatology (was Andy the Canadian twat)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.195656.18691@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
- References: <199212211320.AA16864@das.wang.com> <1992Dec21.155859.23475@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec21.195333.1@vxdesy.desy.de>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:56:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.195333.1@vxdesy.desy.de> godfrey@vxdesy.desy.de writes:
- >In article <1992Dec21.155859.23475@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
- ...
- >>>>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
- ...
- >just as the harsher word for the female genitalia may be applied to either,
- >but in practise is more commonly applied to males.
-
- Now, I of course, am probably falling for the bait (nominee for motto of
- the week, anyone?), but I think it is only on the net that one could
- even imagine using "the harsher word for the female genitalia" to refer
- to a male... (*)
-
- (*) Assuming that we are both talking about the same harsh word for the
- female genitalia. One of my favorite words in the language, BTW.
-
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- - pynq@quads.uchicago.edu, who is still costing the net
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