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Re:Kissing in the Middle Ages by loa_in_ on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:08PM (#30445718)
I made it halfway through the article but I couldn't stand it interpreting all instances of "kiss" as kiss on the mouth. Kisses on the cheek would just as well be written down as simply kisses.
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Re:Kissing in the Middle Ages by scintill76 on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @04:52PM (#30447030)
Do you have specific linguistic and cultural knowledge of that? It doesn’t seem so obvious to me (a layman).
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Re:Kissing in the Middle Ages by loa_in_ on Saturday March 05, 2022 @07:26AM (#30566918)
No
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Re:Kissing in the Middle Ages by ksdale on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:15PM (#30447302)
Or perhaps a kiss on the cheek wouldn't even register as a kiss and would be recorded as a greeting instead?
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Re:Kissing in the Middle Ages by quantified on Thursday February 24, 2022 @12:12AM (#30450566)
It would be worth another 300 or so words to clarify how good the medievalist knowledge is of kiss targets.
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