Campaign: Save the words!
Feb. 26th, 2009 04:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
This link from Chris Smith:
The team says it can predict which words are likely to become extinct-citing "squeeze", "guts", "stick" and "bad" as probable first casualties.Well, as far as I can see, the boys at Reading University need to read more gay porn because where would it be without those four words?
"Stick your cock in me," he gasped. "I want you so bad."
John slid his cock inside, pushing deep within his guts, loving the squeeze of Bill's arse.
SIMPLES!
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Date: 2009-02-26 05:00 pm (UTC)As long as recipes use citrus juice, we will have "squeeze."
As long as there's testosterone, there will be 'guts.'
And .. 'bad?' With all the bad-ass 'bad-boys' and umpty copies of Michael Jackson's album (not to mention Weird Al's parody, Even Worse, which is actually much better?)
I'd look for an April 1 date on that article. And then I'd whack the team with a stick.
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Date: 2009-02-26 05:05 pm (UTC)And read porn!
:)
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Date: 2009-02-26 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-26 05:49 pm (UTC)In the US, people might refer to their boyfriend/girlfriend as "my main squeeze." That's already a bit passe, to be honest. And bad...well, perhaps in the Michael Jackson sense of the word.
Stick and guts, I'm not so sure about. Although I'd wager guts started off as a slang. Sounds like something out of a potboiler.
Just a thought, anyhoo.
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Date: 2009-02-26 06:43 pm (UTC)I'm going to adopt BRING ON THE TRUMPETS! as my catchphrase i think. Then I can just yell TRUMPETS! at anyone who disagrees with me.
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Date: 2009-02-26 06:59 pm (UTC)Erastes the Herald!
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Date: 2009-02-27 01:03 am (UTC)Couldn't resist. *cough*
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Date: 2009-02-27 07:03 am (UTC)But gay porn! Women don't read that! Or write it! We're chaste little flowers who only have sexual thoughts when our husbands want us to have sex!
The only people who read/write gay porn-- assuming it exists-- are gay men, and because we're big hotshot manly academicy types, we're going to pretend they don't exist lest it look like we're too interested and that's saying
something about our sexuality. :P
I still remember someone on a gay porn site saying, "Women watch this stuff, too, yanno?" like it was some kind of great revelation. And I sat there thinking, "No shit, Sherlock."
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Date: 2009-02-27 11:32 pm (UTC)Also, the co-president of Focus Features on Brokeback Mountain - that man has obviously seen the light: I said to Ang, there's one core audience for the movie; he said, "oh yeah, right, the gay audience," and I said, "no, women."
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Date: 2009-02-28 09:01 am (UTC)I really don't get the "different sexuality" thing--do women really think that they are wired different? Someone said earlier on this thread that women have different emotional needs or expectations, or whatever it was and my chin hit the deck at that point.
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