Post #723695
2022-12-25 23:45 UTC
“Booty call” and “butt dial” has been offered up as an example of where the literal meaning of two phrases is the same but the implied meaning is very different (denotative vs connotative meanings).
Today a coffee mug gave me another example: “dad bod” and “father figure”
#linguistics #wordplay
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@aaron_s_marshall@mastodon.au 2022-12-26 21:26
@wendypalmer@mastodon.au Once witnessed an American guy slapped across the face in a restaurant in Australia, after he keenly commented that he liked the waitresses fanny pack.
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@demoographics@wikis.world 2026-03-22 09:18
@wendypalmer@mastodon.au also: "you do you" and "go fuck yourself" :)