taint

[neil]

on 6/4/05 3:47 pm, Mullins, Bill at Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL wrote:

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> Is this the "taint meat"?  As in, "taint pussy, taint asshole".
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>> [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Laurence Horn
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 9:43 AM
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>> Subject: Re: Hooplehead
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>> At 8:58 AM -0400 4/6/05, Orion Montoya wrote:
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>>> I was surprised to hear anatomical "taint" the other night, in a
>>> discussion of the best way to remove Swearengen's bladder stone.  I
>>> don't see this taint in the list archives.
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>> Not even under the _'taint_ spelling?  It does seem like a
>> candidate for the relevant not yet appeared HDAS P-Z volume.
>> As a neo-Aristotelian, I like such concepts defined in terms
>> of an unexcluded middle.  (And then there's Sapir's notion of
>> a "zone of indifference" between two more salient extremes.)
>> Much more compositional than the boring old "perineum".
>>
>> Larry
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In the UK, the male equivalent of 'taint' is 'barse' - it runs from the
Balls to the ARSE.

--Neil Crawford