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[Jonathan Lighter]

That was my interpretation.

JL

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:

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> > ----- Forwarded message from "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at att.net> -----
> > At 7/9/2009 07:42 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > > And after several housewives ganged up on another in a strident
> argument,
> > > she told the camera, "I was sitting there getting literally
> gangbanged."
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> > Now that's more literary than I would credit Real Housewives of New
> > Jersey!  (Or was the speaker Japanese-American?)
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> Instead of "literally" used counter-sense for "figuratively", this could be
> "gang" + ["bang" for 'hit, impact']: a more-compositional interpretation of
> the word.
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