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Re: Re: Innuendo
Re: Re: Weasel Word Studies 101: Recognition, Practice and Technology -- Remi Post Reply Top of the thread Forum
Posted by: Angus Cunningham
07/29/2008, 18:06:48

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Remi: "Perhaps we could allow benign innuendo and forbid malevolent innuendo. Trouble is, people won't be able to agree which examples are benign and which malevolent."

Some people, accustomed to mind-reading, read innuendoes where none were intended. Although in actual conversation we do notice nods and winks as evidence of an intended innuendo, in TT cyberspace, the absence of a winky, crooked smile, might, sans mind-reading, be charitably interpreted as having no intention of innuendo.

I think Silverfox's post about the purported use in Italian of the word "innuendo" might have many innuendos, but then again I might be mind-reading unforgivably ....

Angus Cunningham

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