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colubra

7/28/03 10:50 am

I now submit an example of why trying to type in cutsey-speak is bad.
Someone has written on a community on livejournal that 'Michael and David are my two favorite menses'.

menses is a word meaning 'the menstrual flow', and is derived from the latin for 'months': mensis.

Folks, can we please not describe two guys we find cute as being 'my two favorite menstrual flows'?

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• eac

  7/28/03 10:47 am (UTC)

  

  See, I could have been so happy never seeing that in print...

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  • colubra

    7/28/03 10:50 am (UTC)

    

    See, my first thought was: 'you don't just decide which ones are the #1 and #2 of the at-least-144 that you've experienced, but you NAME THEM???' --then I realized that this was cutesyspeak for 'men'.

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• cheekytubemouse

  7/28/03 10:56 am (UTC)

  

  *laughing my ass off*
  
  Though I have to admit to using words like "monst0rs." You can blame redshrike and the ladybug for that.

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  • colubra

    7/28/03 10:57 am (UTC)

    

    Is a monst0r a giant gargantuan place wherein one acquires mercantile goods? Or does it sound like 'monster'?
    
    either way, though, it's not an ACTUAL EXISTING WORD, unlike menses.

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    • cheekytubemouse

      7/28/03 11:06 am (UTC)

      

      It does sound like "mon-store" but it means a big, scary thing that hide under the bed or in the closet.
      
      either way, though, it's not an ACTUAL EXISTING WORD, unlike menses.
      
      Good point.
      

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• EXACTITUDE.

  ahkond

  7/28/03 11:25 am (UTC)

  

  When you say "cutsey", do you mean "cutesy"?

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  • Re: EXACTITUDE.

    colubra

    7/28/03 09:12 pm (UTC)

    

    it looks wrong spelled either way, but yes.

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• digitalsidhe

  7/28/03 12:01 pm (UTC)

  

  This would work okay in spoken communication, since the pronounciation of "MEN-zezz" (cutesy double-pluralization of "men") would be easily distinguishable from "MEN-seez" (plural of menstrual periods).
  
  But in written communication, it's simply hilarious. Disgustingly so, but still hilarious, IMO.
  

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• toast3r

  7/28/03 12:12 pm (UTC)

  

  Just had the horrible thought that Michael and David were a tampon and a maxipad.
  
  Ick.

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