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Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.
Kvothe's father (from The Name of the Wind) |
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And yet...also so true of men. In a person's vocabulary, every word has its own shade of meaning.
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Yes, dear.
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Yes, dear!
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same thing.
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Ha! I like that.
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I remember my Dad could imbue the word 'love' (as in, 'pass me that love', or 'listen love...') with an array of meanings with a slight difference in tone. |
"You bastard" can be anything from a friendly greeting to a declaration of war, depending on tone and context.
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Yeah. Similar here. Bastard can be a term of abuse or a friendly term.
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