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[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
I have a French Canadian friend who said his girlfriend looked middle-aged when he meant she looked medieval (it was her dress). She was 19 and didn't take it well, so it was pretty...okay, we shouldn't have laughed, but we did.
Of course, he's the same guy that when another girl asked him "Do I look fat in this?" his answer was "Not more than usual" so he was always a gold mine of the wrong thing to say to a chick.
I feel like homey is a pretty recent addition to English but if I heard, "this place has a homey feel" I would understand they meant it felt like home.
French Canadian
Hey, that reminds me, Shir. Parlez-vous Francais?
That is a neat website! I love the usage chart by year.
Montreal rocks, Shir.
I thought homey was referring to a person, not a place. Huh.
That's a more recent slang usage.
It's a buffista's site.
Parlez-vous Francais?
Comme ci, comme ça. I only took the basic level in university. But I want and plan to improve it in the future.
Montreal rocks, Shir.
So I hear!
I feel like we have a buffista or two in Montreal.
Oh, and that homely story reminded me. This morning, in one of my classes, we had presentations. One of the students immigrated here from Russia, and whenever she tried to say "hishtana" (changed, v., singular-masculine/indefinite pronoun form) she said "hashtana" (urinating).
Then it hit me just how bitchy Hebrew can be.