not masculine/queer

Sun Jan 29 17:45:12 UTC 2006

On Jan 29, 2006, at 9:11 AM, Dennis R. Preston wrote:

> "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.

"bats for the other team" is the way i've mostly heard it; "bats" is
definitely more vivid than "plays".

arnold

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