Should Words That Sound Like Offensivie Words...

[JSojourner]

I don't know.  I just remember a gym teacher who would always use the word "twat" when he meant "taut".  Like if we were doing the rope climb or playing tug of war, he would say, "Hold that thing TWAT!"  And we'd all collapse laughing.  Junior High School, yanno.

I know it's not the same thing.  But it's a story that needed to be told.  <g>

[afleitch]

I don't know.  I just remember a gym teacher who would always use the word "twat" when he meant "taut".  Like if we were doing the rope climb or playing tug of war, he would say, "Hold that thing TWAT!"  And we'd all collapse laughing.  Junior High School, yanno.

I know it's not the same thing.  But it's a story that needed to be told.  <g>

Then owls and bats
Cowls and twats
Monks and nuns in a cloister's moods
Adjourn to the oak-stump pantry


The poet Robert Browning about 400 years ago (IIRC) thought a twat was a nuns hat Speaking of which most of our modern swear words are pure medieval/Elizabethan vintage.

[12th Doctor]

The original "Rule of Thumb" was that a husband was only permitted to beat his wife with a stick that was no thinker than his thumb.  Obviously, beating your wife with a stick (which is something that people ought to get incensed about) was common enough that the expression has grown to mean other things, and most people are totally unaware of it original meaning.

Wrong.

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Wrong.  (Expanded debunking)

Really.  You mean that those things don't mean that?  Kinda like ndly? 

[ilikeverin]

The original "Rule of Thumb" was that a husband was only permitted to beat his wife with a stick that was no thinker than his thumb.  Obviously, beating your wife with a stick (which is something that people ought to get incensed about) was common enough that the expression has grown to mean other things, and most people are totally unaware of it original meaning.

Wrong.

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Wrong.  (Expanded debunking)

Really.  You mean that those things don't mean that?  Kinda like ndly? 

I still have no idea why this issue invokes so much passion in you.  Honestly: if people don't use it, it will die off; if people use it, it won't.  And there's nothing any one of us can do about it, save perhaps unless we have a particularly influential circle of peers.

[Associate Justice PiT]

The original "Rule of Thumb" was that a husband was only permitted to beat his wife with a stick that was no thinker than his thumb.  Obviously, beating your wife with a stick (which is something that people ought to get incensed about) was common enough that the expression has grown to mean other things, and most people are totally unaware of it original meaning.

Wrong.

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Wrong.  (Expanded debunking)

Really.  You mean that those things don't mean that?  Kinda like ndly? 

I still have no idea why this issue invokes so much passion in you.  Honestly: if people don't use it, it will die off; if people use it, it won't.  And there's nothing any one of us can do about it, save perhaps unless we have a particularly influential circle of peers.

     Tell me about it. I've been trying to bring "methinks" back into the vocabulary of the proletariat, without much success.

[ilikeverin]

The original "Rule of Thumb" was that a husband was only permitted to beat his wife with a stick that was no thinker than his thumb.  Obviously, beating your wife with a stick (which is something that people ought to get incensed about) was common enough that the expression has grown to mean other things, and most people are totally unaware of it original meaning.

Wrong.

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Wrong.  (Expanded debunking)

Really.  You mean that those things don't mean that?  Kinda like ndly? 

I still have no idea why this issue invokes so much passion in you.  Honestly: if people don't use it, it will die off; if people use it, it won't.  And there's nothing any one of us can do about it, save perhaps unless we have a particularly influential circle of peers.

     Tell me about it. I've been trying to bring "methinks" back into the vocabulary of the proletariat, without much success.

Methinks you should redouble your efforts

[Associate Justice PiT]

The original "Rule of Thumb" was that a husband was only permitted to beat his wife with a stick that was no thinker than his thumb.  Obviously, beating your wife with a stick (which is something that people ought to get incensed about) was common enough that the expression has grown to mean other things, and most people are totally unaware of it original meaning.

Wrong.

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Wrong.  (Expanded debunking)

Really.  You mean that those things don't mean that?  Kinda like ndly? 

I still have no idea why this issue invokes so much passion in you.  Honestly: if people don't use it, it will die off; if people use it, it won't.  And there's nothing any one of us can do about it, save perhaps unless we have a particularly influential circle of peers.

     Tell me about it. I've been trying to bring "methinks" back into the vocabulary of the proletariat, without much success.

Methinks you should redouble your efforts

     Methinks you're right.

[The Hack Hater]

Methinks that I would have never found anyone like me.

[Хahar 🤔]

Methinks that I would have never found anyone like me.

Methinks I have used methinks at least 20 times on this forum.