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   jmd@nelefa.org to William Vetter   
   Re: Scottish slang   
   29 Apr 15 08:49:44   
   
   On Saturday, 22 March 2014 16:11:03 UTC, William Vetter  wrote:   
   > On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 2:12:29 PM UTC-5, Brian M. Scott wrote:   
   > If you like this kind of question, tell me what you think is the origin and   
   age of "tadger," and "todger."  I'd like to see if you come up with the same   
   answer I did.   
      
   Dear God.   
      
   Rapist = sex beast = beastie.   
      
   Testicles = baws.   
      
   Heid the baw, bawheid, fannybaws, weebaws, naebaws, beastiebaws.   
      
   It's nothing more than a word to insult a rapist.   
      
   I don't think I've ever seen people attempting to intelligently deconstruct   
   Scottish slang. It's slang for a reason. It grows with time. It's not clearly   
   defined by scholars in a little darkened room before being released to the   
   public.   
      
   To the original poster - if you don't natively speak Scottish (or any other,   
   for that matter) slang, please don't have your character use it. It'll come   
   out trite and wrong.   
      
   J   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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