[Ads-l] "_pop_ my dick-string"

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 5:30 AM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dictionary definitions often sound like that when they involve something
> abstract. That doesn't mean they're wrong: just that nobody ever tries to
> define them in conversation with the precision and register expected in
> dictionary definitions.
>

Slang term vs. standard term is the problem. Even though reading the very
few literary examples of _dick-string_ leaves the determination of the
exact definition(s) of _dick-string_ as an exercise for the reader, the
compiler of a dictionary unequivocally states that the sole meaning of
_dick-string_ is a definition that is no more than a tradition among
lexicographers, whereas the definition of _honor_ is shown - dare I say it?
- a very high degree of _respect_ that is missing from the single,
pulled-out-of-a-lexicographer’s-ass definition that suffices for the slang
term.


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-Wilson
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