Clashing slang

[Dan Goncharoff]

So what was meant when Bo Diddley told Bo Jackson, "Bo, you don't know
Diddley"?

DanG

On 5/17/2010 5:54 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
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> At 4:59 PM -0400 5/17/10, Victor Steinbok wrote:
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>> That's... uhm ... interesting. I am used to "diddle" as more colloquial
>> for the technical "molest". I suppose, it's just as asymmetric as "bang".
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>>      VS-)
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> Is that really true?  To use Prof. Quang Phuc Dong's celebrated diagnostic,
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> "John and Mary diddled each other for an hour"
> "John and Mary banged each other for an hour"
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> The first seems more natural to me.  YMMV, as may John's and Mary's.
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> LH
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>> On 5/17/2010 3:29 PM, ronbutters at AOL.COM wrote:
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>>> In Iowa in the 1950s he did not bang her, he DIDDLED her.
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