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hummingwolf ([personal profile] hummingwolf) wrote2003-03-11 10:30 pm
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So on the blogs and journals I've read today, the two most popular topics have been French fries (a.k.a. "Freedom fries") and masturbation.




If there is a connection, please do not tell me about it.
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[identity profile] daisydumont.livejournal.com 2003-03-11 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah, exactly, both languages derive it from the latin (manustupration, or something). ick. in italiano, it's masturbazione. ah well. we're stuck with ugly names for it. ha
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[identity profile] hummingwolf.livejournal.com 2003-03-11 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, the English language got most of its Latinate words from the Norman conquerors, didn't it? So while we sit around eating our Freedom fries, we can blame the French for the ugly word too! Now I'm wondering what the Anglo-Saxon word for it might have been.

anglo-saxon

[identity profile] icdedpeople.livejournal.com 2003-03-13 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
i think it was "ðingiðurken"

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[identity profile] icdedpeople.livejournal.com 2003-03-14 10:02 am (UTC)(link)
umm, i was kidding, btw.
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[identity profile] hummingwolf.livejournal.com 2003-03-14 10:09 am (UTC)(link)
I rather suspected you might be. :-)
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