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Andrew McCrea
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 05-12-2006 08:52 AM

Well, I got this e-mail this morning that's been passed through a chain, most of which includes my extended family.

This is not the high school I graduated from... its one that I was at for Grade 9 and 10.

Just exactly what the hell is going on there?!

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Mike Blakesley
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From: Forsyth, Montana
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posted 05-12-2006 12:34 PM

Shouldn't this be in the random photos thread?

Looks like a prank pulled by some of the local kidds.

There were a couple of roll-around changeable message signs in our town when I was in high school. We used to change the letters all the time to obscene sayings and whatnot.

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Mark Hajducki
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From: Edinburgh, UK
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posted 05-12-2006 01:37 PM

Sorry to spoil the fun (Intercourse has innocent meanings)

From the Oxford English Dictionary

quote:
intercourse, n.
1. Communication to and fro between countries, etc.; mutual dealings between the inhabitants of different localities. In early use exclusively with reference to trade, and hence sometimes = commerce, traffic; now in more general sense.

2. a. Social communication between individuals; frequent and habitual contact in conversation and action; dealings.

b. With of (= in respect of, as regards).

c. pl. Now rare.

d. Sexual connexion.

3. Communion between man and that which is spiritual or unseen.

4. Communication of ideas; discourse, conversation, discussion. Obs. (exc. as included in 2).

5. a. Intercommunication between things or parts.

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John Pytlak
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From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
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posted 05-12-2006 02:05 PM

If not a prank, the words "discourse" or "interchange" or "discussion" would have been better choices.

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Jim Bedford
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From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 05-12-2006 06:36 PM

Looks like someone removed the "W"

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Andrew McCrea
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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posted 05-12-2006 10:02 PM

Random picture's thread? Oh... NO! It's good enough for its own thread [Wink]

And Mark, words commonly take on other connotations... Look at the word "pedophile"; it means 'lover of children', but no one these days would go around proclaiming "I'm a pedophile!"

P.S. My original post was supposed to be light-hearted and funny, not serious...

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Steve Scott
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From: Minneapolis, MN
Registered: Sep 2000

posted 05-15-2006 12:29 PM

It appears they waited until you left. Or perhaps you need to become a parent. I got it from the start. [thumbsup]

Sounds like that line from Sixteen Candles
"What's going on dear..."
"...SEX..."

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Leo Enticknap
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From: Loma Linda, CA
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posted 05-16-2006 01:35 PM

quote: John Pytlak
If not a prank, the words "discourse" or "interchange" or "discussion" would have been better choices.

If it's not a prank, then the most likely explanation, IMHO, is that whoever decided to use the word 'intercourse' in that context doesn't have English as their first language. It's technically correct (as Mark points out) but shows that the author doesn't realise that in everyday use, the word is overwhelming associated with just one of the meanings on Mark's list. If so, that suggests to me that the author learnt English more from being formally taught it than using the language in an everyday situation.

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Look at the word "pedophile"; it means 'lover of children', but no one these days would go around proclaiming "I'm a pedophile!"

There was an incident a few years back when a doctor was interviewed as an expert on child illnesses on a local radio station in South Wales. She was introduced by the presenter as a consultant paediatrician. Some of the local yokels confused that with paedophile, formed a lynch mob and burnt her house down. It would be funny if it wasn't true.

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