not masculine/queer

[Dennis R. Preston]

"Plays for the other team," "sits on the other side of the
bleachers," and on and on and on.

dInIs


>On Jan 28, 2006, at 8:26 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>
>>Somehow 'maybe X and Y just go to different gyms' sounds like it
>>should mean more than it probably does...
>
>you can see a lot of variants here: 'X works out at the other gym',
>for instance.
>
>arnold
>
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