Last night I was talking to a friend who was explaining some diet or process or whatever, I wasn’t really paying attention, anyway the point was she was doing this to “cleanse” her system.
She mentioned how good it feels to have “all the crap just washed out of you”, then she giggled and said “no pun intended”.
When she said “no pun intended”, it actually took me a split second to realize what she was referring to. It was then that I became aware that “crap” no longer means “feces” to me.
It just means “crap”. Y’know, stuff you don’t want or don’t care about or don’t like or don’t know why it’s there in your way and junk.
“Shit” can still mean “feces” to my mind, but it also means a whole lot of other shit.
But “crap” just means “crap”, it no longer means “feces”- not to me anyway.
It does to me, mostly, but I think it’s because I have two little word-sponges hanging around with me much of the time, and I have to watch my language.
Ooh, that’s good. I hadn’t really thought of just how frequently that phrase is used- it’s actually a phrase that I myself don’t use at all. But, yes, if someone were to say to me “I gotta go take a crap” I would know exactly what they meant. Even though they wouldn’t actually be “taking it” but rather expelling it.