Timeline for Word's meaning in a particular (provided) context?
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Aug 18, 2015 at 17:24 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Danilov: The only aspect of this issue that really involves use of English (as opposed to matters of social interaction, prior history of conversants, etc.) is the (contextually amplified) connotations of the word bits with genitalia. The man has his dangly bits, and (more recently, by association, I suspect) the woman has her lady bits (often as the one-word form ladybits). | |
Aug 18, 2015 at 17:08 | comment | added | Danilov Anton | @FumbleFingers looks like I have to try and give it the most all-embracing interpritation (in another language) not to distort the meaning. Thanks again! | |
Aug 18, 2015 at 17:01 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Danilov: As I'm now saying for the third time, I think we're seriously into the realms of idle speculation - regarding a situation where we (or at least I) don't really have sufficient context to fully understand every possible nuance. For example, it's at least possible she's referring to a picture of her own child - but even that doesn't prove she's ever seen a male penis (pre- or post-pubescent, erect or flaccid). Perhaps she's one of those people who only ever make love in the dark, or with their eyes closed. | |
Aug 18, 2015 at 16:53 | comment | added | Danilov Anton | @FumbleFingers, thank you! I got you. The guy then replies: "Nothing you haven't seen before." So, he probably thinks she means basic set (penis and testicles). And she gives him the kind of "Oh, you're a smart ass" glance thus likely agreeing with him. What do you think? | |
Aug 18, 2015 at 16:38 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Danilov: As I said in my first comment, precisely what "bits" she's referring to is entirely a matter of idle speculation. It's possible, for example, that she's only every been "intimately acquainted" with Jewish males, and that she's referring to the foreskin (not recognizing it, she may be unsure whether that's a bit or plural bits). | |
Aug 18, 2015 at 16:16 | comment | added | Sam Burns | Yes, that's what she's saying. | |
Aug 18, 2015 at 15:58 | comment | added | Danilov Anton | Thank you! And by using the word 'extra' she implies that she doesn't have those? (they are extra within her (female) anatomy?) | |
Aug 18, 2015 at 15:22 | vote | accept | Danilov Anton | ||
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Aug 18, 2015 at 14:35 | history | answered | Sam Burns | CC BY-SA 3.0 |