When people say pigtails, do they mean twin ponytails?
Yeah.
What if someone says "a single pigtail"
Then they are crazy and you should probably run away.
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tommyrot - May 27, 2010 1:17:50 pm PDT #2047 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Steph L. - May 27, 2010 1:22:05 pm PDT #2048 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
When people say pigtails, do they mean twin ponytails? What if someone says "a single pigtail", do they mean a braid? Or a single ponytail?
Two bunches of hair, gathered and held with an elastic or clip (but not braided) = pigtails.
One bunch of hair, gathered and held with an elastic or clip (but not braided) = ponytail.
Any number of bunches of braided hair = braid(s).
Sophia Brooks - May 27, 2010 1:25:00 pm PDT #2049 of 30001
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My definitions:
1 or 2 bunches of hair, that are short-- pigtail(s)
1 or 2 bunches of hair that are long -- ponytail(s)
any braided hair-- braid(s)
§ ita § - May 27, 2010 1:25:41 pm PDT #2050 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The writer is using pigtails to mean what we called "in two" growing up. I never would have called them pigtails, because hey, kinky hair. "In two" was a superset. Pigtails is for straight hair.
I have no idea, however, what pigs did differently from ponies, exactly, to get all this.
eta: Oh, and braids==dozens and dozens of tiny plaits or cornrows.
Hil R. - May 27, 2010 1:26:02 pm PDT #2051 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Steph's definitions are mine, basically, but I think that hair in two braids with elastics at the top and bottom could also be called braided pigtails. Braids without the elastic at the top are just braids.
tommyrot - May 27, 2010 1:26:15 pm PDT #2052 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Any number of bunches of braided hair = braid(s).
Even if the number is two?
Steph L. - May 27, 2010 1:27:02 pm PDT #2053 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Any number of bunches of braided hair = braid(s).
Even if the number is two?
Oh, yes. Braids trump number.
Kat - May 27, 2010 1:27:28 pm PDT #2054 of 30001
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My definitions are in line with Steph's. It might be an Ohio thing.
Strix - May 27, 2010 1:27:52 pm PDT #2055 of 30001
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Hmmm. I think two when I hear pigtails. I can't "hear" it, mentally, without the "s."
When I had long hair, and wore, er, double ponies? (that sounds even dirtier) I was (a) well aware that a schoolgirl connotation might be construed (b) sometimes going a little for the naughty schoolgirl thing and (c) sometimes I kinda had dirty hair and it kept hair out of my face.
And hi, skewed logic, even though you're 18 and I'll cut you a little slack. Should teenage girls not be wearing their hair in "girlish" styles, because it makes some people think they're -- GASP-- schoolgirls? Um.
Honey, welcome to the grown-up world. ANYTHING can be seen as sexy.
And sometimes pigtails are just pigtails.
Hil R. - May 27, 2010 1:29:44 pm PDT #2056 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Note to self: do not google pigtails with SafeSearch off. Even with SafeSearch on "moderate," almost half the results are porn.