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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 03 July 2007 - Volume 06</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_sandy@scotstext.org" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sandy Fleming</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg">
<<a href="mailto:sandy@scotstext.org">sandy@scotstext.org</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2007.07.03 (03) [E]</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span class="q">> From: Paul Finlow-Bates <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">
wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>><br>> Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2007.07.02 (04) [E/LS]<br><br>> I think she was being a little precious, or just anti-English. In<br>> much of coastal England, and Cornwall I suspect, it is also the name
<br>> of the common sea-bird, the cormorant . We were even talking about<br>> shaggy dog stories on this very site, just a month or so back.<br>><br>> I've long believed that anybody can be offended if they try hard
<br>> enough.<br><br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">But then again, David doesn't tell us how he actually used the word. We<br>say "shag-pile carpet" in the UK but you can imagine that if you come
<br>from the other side of the pond you might talk about "a nice shag"<br>without giving enough context, and that might give her pause for<br>thought.<br><br>I think I myself would explain to an American to be a bit careful with
<br>the word if I heard them using it innocently. But hasn't Mike Myers<br>increased American awareness of the British usage these days?<br></div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span class="q">
<br>> From: R. F. Hahn <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>> Subject: Lexicon<br>><br>> I'm all with you there, Paul, whatever that's worth. I tend to wonder
<br>> about people like that, though I totally respect people's dislike of<br>> coarse language.<br><br></span></div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">To me, this depends very much on how the language is used, rather than
<br>the actual words used. I'm sure I could use "latin" just as offensively<br>as I could use "anglo-saxon". And then again, people will let you away<br>with anything if you make them laugh with it.
<br><br>To me, coarse language used innocently seems rather good humour. In<br>British Sign Language, the signs for "cheat" and "shit" involve exactly<br>the same movement, though with different handshapes. By a wonderful
<br>coincidence, the two words also lipread exactly the same. And I have a<br>friend who's a very dedicated Christian who keeps using the wrong<br>handshape and every time I laugh out of context she realises she's done
<br>it again.<br><br>A long time ago I saw on someone's timesheet in work that they'd spent<br>two hours "humping for Martha". Of course I knew he meant moving the<br>office furniture, but when I confronted him with, "Did you really spend
<br>two hours on this?" he said with a perfectly straight face, "Yes,<br>without a break," and I knew I was in the presence of a master<br>humourist.<br><br>(Names changed to protect the innocent).<br></div>
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg"><br>Sandy Fleming<br>http//scotstext.org/<br><br></span>
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