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Re:Thunderbird 91.0 by mdp2021 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @05:44AM (#28154142)
I see, but if you take a term like 'bunny'* and then for some reason it becomes - I don't know - a sensational sexual innuendo in south Boston or the whole of the continent, it is not a fault of 'bunny', and one cannot expect that others in Anywheristan start having problems with 'bunny' out of somebody's folly.

* the first term I could think of, probably as I am writing from a field having plenty of them nearby.

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Re:Thunderbird 91.0 by dotancohen on Thursday August 12, 2021 @06:00AM (#28154259)
See: Pussy
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Re:Thunderbird 91.0 by trangus_1985 on Monday August 16, 2021 @06:42AM (#28196675)
> one cannot expect that others in Anywheristan start having problems with 'bunny' out of somebody's folly

well that's the funny thing about language - it's very democratized in some ways. After a while, if even 10% of people use it to actively mean something sexual, the majority of people will know that it's meant to indicate something sexual.

You've reinvented dialects.

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