On Jul 8, 9:04 pm, Wilbur Wiggins  wrote:
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>  On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:53:11 -0700, Wilbur Wiggins
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> >(Wilbur Wiggins posting in alt.english.usage)
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> >On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 17:45:31 -0700 (PDT), Will Dockery
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> >>On Jul 7, 8:18 pm, matt wrote:
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> >>> Has anyone ever done a thesis on this French tendency to hijack innocent
> >>> vocab for unhealthy purposes?
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> >>The French evidently don't have a monopoly on it.  Shakespeare used
> >>"die" for "have an orgasm".
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> >Spanish 'coger,' which can have various innocent meanings (e.g., to
> >take, to catch), also means 'to fuck' in some Latin American areas
> >(Mexico, Rio de la Plata, Venezuela), according to The Oxford Spanish
> >Dictionary.
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> English "woody," which can be the common nickname of a man (Woody
> Hayes, Woody Harrelson), can also describe the sylvan characteristic
> of a piece of property, or can refer to a bygone station-wagon style
> in which the external door panels were real wood (and were not
> unusually infested with termites), can also be a penile erection in
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Wang: a computer company founded by Dr. Wang.
Wang (slang): that what founded Dr. Wang.
(God I must be bored!)