[nukkad] One word - many meanings

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ONE WORD - MANY MEANINGS

Words we use are used partially, by misinterpretation or by rank 
usage, all of which may leave the real meaning by the wayside. 

We love, live, worship and die by words, and this could be 
words we misinterpret, or do not really take value of. Which in a
sense makes all our acts, commitments and foibles open to question.

For instance when upset we say, so and so is a louse, we nullify
the original meaning and interpret it to mean, a despicable person.
Louse, singular for pediculous capitis, the colloquial plural being
lice, becomes a person of a particular character. Usage, which is
tyranny of the many over the few, has just now devolved a full human
to the level of an arthropod, or the other way around.

In the process, we have misplaced the original meaning, and have
indeed, accepted an obvious misnomer and transgression. All in
the name of usage.

Nowhere are men more apt to so maul the language, or introduce
such oppressive usage, as when they speak of love, or sex.

Take sex. One might ask, what is the sex of the baby? Or if you are
wandering in Castro district in San Francisco and step into a bar, 
and happen to strike up a conversation with an attractive creature
who is all sex appeal and terrifying possibilities, till you happen to
turn chivalrous and walk her to the restrooms and see her disappear 
into the one labeled For Males, you might have occasion to ask, 
Duhh, wunner what sex she, he, it is?

On the other hand, sex, as in a noun, has taken on a much more
illustrious career as the verb. "Let's have sex", sounds far more promising
that, "What is the sex of the baby?".

And suddenly, as soon as we have sex, we have good sex, bad sex,
perverted sex, same sex sex, animal sex, sex upon immature children,
sex within the family.

And there is a dark humor in all this. We may have occasion, 
adjoining two usage-ridden verbs, to say one day:

"Gee, that was lousy sex".

And I don't mean, "Gee, this louse I see walking in Bob's hair is
of the female gender".

More on Love later.

Arya.









































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