Fwd: Theriomorphism in a Los Angeles Gay Community

[Arnold Zwicky]

drat!  intended for the whole list:

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu>
> Date: February 12, 2010 7:03:10 AM PST
> To: TheGonch at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: Theriomorphism in a Los Angeles Gay Community
>
>
> On Feb 12, 2010, at 6:47 AM, Dan Goncharoff (following up on Jon
> Lighter) wrote:
>
>> I always thought "twink" was short hand for young couples with lots
>> of
>> disposable income: TWo Incomes No Kid, a variant of "dink" (dual
>> income...).
>>
>> I have also seen "twinky" (... no kids yet).
>
> well, astonishingly, languages have different words with the same
> pronunciation; in fact, languages revel in lexical ambiguity.  in
> fact, there are (at least) two lexical items TWINK in english, which
> have nothing to do with one another.  some discussion on the gay use
> here:
>
> AZ, 10/17/09: Rude word:
> http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1820
>
> arnold
>

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