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05-09-2006, 12:26 PM
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Question about the english language
This is something I've actually been thinking for a few years (yes, I have no life).
Everyone knows what the word womanizer means. The question is, why don't they call women who have many love affairs manizers? IMHO, manizer is pretty darn good a word. 
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05-09-2006, 12:32 PM
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Re: Question about the english language
Whoa! And WTF?? Why do we DRIVE on a PARKway but we PARK on a DRIVEway?!?!?!?!
Dude, there are a million things about the English language like this. Edit: Thanks moran, you made me waste my 1000th post on this. Yes, it is your fault.
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05-09-2006, 12:33 PM
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Re: Question about the english language
i thnk the term that most closely parallels that idea is gold digger.
i realize the two are not exactly same focus, but what men want from sex is more of it anytime anywhere, with almost anyone, but what women often want is security and sex is what gets it for them. i think at least the two terms have about the same connotations...and your word manizer is more closely associated with an existing word, nymphomaniac. this doesn't mean that there is not room for a new word...English is full of it!
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#6
05-09-2006, 12:51 PM
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Re: Question about the english language
Language is arbitrary.
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#7
05-09-2006, 01:43 PM
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Re: Question about the english language
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Whoa! And WTF?? Why do we DRIVE on a PARKway but we PARK on a DRIVEway?!?!?!?! Dude, there are a million things about the English language like this. Edit: Thanks moran, you made me waste my 1000th post on this. Yes, it is your fault. [/ QUOTE ] Since we're being retarded... Why is abbreviation such a long word? And what cruel bastard put a 's' in lisp?
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#8
05-09-2006, 02:18 PM
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Re: Question about the english language
She's a maneater!
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