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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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