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Re: Language slipping?
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Sun, 26 Dec 1999 02:25:50 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Jasper Janssen writes:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 16:47:19 GMT, "Christopher Lannan"
> <shakguy@hotspammail.com> wrote:
> > In lugnet.admin.general, Jasper Janssen writes:
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> > > You do know what "funk" was, before the 70's arrived, don't you? Look
> > > it up..
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> > By the way, I just looked it up at websters online, besides the popular music
> > meaning, they also had some stuff about being afraid- like being "in a funk"
> > That was it. Is there another meaning they didn't list. I would imagine it • has
> > something to do with things of an "adult" nature.
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> Merriam Websters' either thinks the meaning is obscene, or that it is
> not general enough..
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> PG advised, the faint-of-heart may look away now.
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> The meaning I was referring to that I've seen it used as is, how to
> put this delicately.. the liquid which results when females of the
> human species get, uhhh, "excited".
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> I never said it was a particularly _nice_ meaning.
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> Jasper
Ok at the risk of instigating a long thread on a topic that nobody probably
wants to continue with, I always thought it was the male not female to which
this word referred to???(to put it delicately)
This is rather an old fashioned term, I know it was in use in my parents day,
cause there was an uproar when in the seventies, teenagers started saying real
cool things such as "wow, far out and funky man!" To refer to something very
cool, or "hip"
The parents nearly had a fit, over the actual meaning of this word, which
meant then had to sit down and have a "serious talk" to the wayward teenager,
about the "actual meaning" of this word. Thinking it would shock them,
regarding the true meaning, and the said teenager would stop using the word
immediately, unfortunatly it had no such effect.
Now, none of my dictionarys carry this (previous) definition, so its only
those of us who grew up in the 70's (with staight easily-shocked parents) or
earlier, who would remember this.
I'll have to check with my father, as to the correct gender to apply the word
to.
I guess this means I'll have to post regarding this again (sorry folks!)
heh, heh, heh. (dirty chuckle)
Rachel :-)
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| (...) Actually, originally the word meant "a strong smell or stink" (OED has quotes using it this way from the 1600s. Defintely related to tobacco smoke - in fact, the word was probably derived from a french dialect word meaning "to give off smoke". (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Merriam Websters' either thinks the meaning is obscene, or that it is not general enough.. PG advised, the faint-of-heart may look away now. The meaning I was referring to that I've seen it used as is, how to put this delicately.. the liquid (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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