Well, sure, that’s a possibility. But for now, I feel compelled to classify that as a possibility, rather than an established fact.
Kimstu:
But as I tried to illustrate with my two conversation scenarios, there’s a difference between discussing your opinions about what something obscure might mean, and laying down the law about what you’re definitively asserting it does mean.
ISTM that when the woman objects to being “told what it means”, it’s the latter type of discourse she’s complaining about, rather than the former.
For what it’s worth. I find the discussion between Kimstu and Spectre to be illuminating.
ETA: This is the BBQ Pit?! WHaaa?
FTR, I think some of the best discussions are had in the Pit.
Kimstu
December 7, 2018, 9:04pm
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Yeah, frequently we’ll be sitting here enjoying a nice vituperative quarrel and all of a sudden a civil reasoned debate breaks out. Very disconcerting.
Kimstu:
From Latin “denarius”, the Roman coin eventually superseded by the “penny”, “pfennig”, etc., among speakers of Germanic languages. Just as the symbol for the British pound is “L” from Latin “libra” (and the pound as a unit of weight is abbreviated “lb”).
What Kimstu said. The British used to use d as a written abbreviation for “penny”, which is how it came to be applied to nails.
I’d like to have seen him explaining how he knocked her up at the age of 99.