MILF (was Re: change from the bottom up)

[Scot LaFaive]

For me, I think I've heard MILF spoken out almost exclusively as "mom" not
"mother."

Scot LaFaive


>From: David Bowie <db.list at PMPKN.NET>
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>Subject: Re: MILF (was Re: change from the bottom up)
>Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:52:24 -0400
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>Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> > At 9:48 AM -0700 4/26/07, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
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> >> "FILF" (for use by women and gay men) has been coined on the model of
> >> "MILF".
>
> > One of my students submitted "DILF" in her New Words Journal in '03,
> > overheard during Visiting Weekend at Yale.  Seems less likely to be
> > misparsed ("Hey, look at that FILF!").
>
>FWIW, i've heard/read DILF before, but never FILF. DILF seems to be more
>parallel, since MILF/FILF would require a mother/father distinction, but
>whenever i've heard MILF broken down in full, it's always begun with
>mom, not mother.
>
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