• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    2 days ago

    In many English speaking places, “slept with” is an old euphemism for sex.

    I always assumed it was because the couple stereotypically spent the night together and This way you can supposedly “preserve the innocence” of people who don’t know.

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      2 days ago

      Yes, that’s one of the already-existing meanings I alluded to in my comment. It’s also never written with quotation marks.

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        11 hours ago

        So what’s your point and how did you meaningfully contribute to the conversation by essentially asking what it means to sleep with someone and then saying you know what it means to sleep with someone, while somehow having an undeserved air of superiority?

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          10 hours ago

          They’re being a bit prickly about it, but using quotes like that certainly implied to me as reader that it was meaning a suggestive usage, which doesn’t make sense since the plaintext version already means fucking. I mean I understood their meaning and realized they were just unnecessary quotation marks quickly, but I also at first wondered if there was some sort of third meaning beyond rest or sex that was being suggested by the marks, so I kind of feel like the reaction to them here is a bit overblown.

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        16 hours ago

        never

        Sorry, I’m confused. Weren’t we talking about human language here, or are you using “never” figuratively?

        (The quotation marks here are referring to acual quotation of the word you used, not a standard feature of the way the word is normally written or an indicator of some alternate meaning. I’m spelling this out because just in case you’re unaware of that usage of quotation marks, which frequently occurs in the context of quoting someone. Unless you’re literally asserting that the word “slept” is never quoted, “never” is a strong word to use.)