Re: Re[4]: [tied] Languages Evolve in Punctuational Bursts

Would you name your daughter Pussy? or your son Dick?

--- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:

> I think that has little to do with their frequency.
>
> More pertinent are factors like novelty, uniqueness,
> what the current batch
> of "stars" have as first names. From the language I
> regularly hear from
> respectable people, there are few taboos left
> against using sexual
> terminology.
>
> Patrick
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
> To: "Patrick Ryan" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 4:19 PM
> Subject: Re[4]: [tied] Languages Evolve in
> Punctuational Bursts
>
>
> > At 5:10:00 PM on Thursday, February 7, 2008,
> Patrick Ryan
> > wrote:
> >
> > > What do Dick and Peter or pussycat have to do
> with word
> > > taboos?
> >
> > The first two are slang for 'penis'; 'pussycat'
> contains
> > 'pussy', slang for 'vulva'.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
> >
>

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