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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 6 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 Re: faux amis #126162 04/02/04 11:57 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 I think it may just be street slang. There was a tale in Reader's Digest's Life in These United States of a young couple who had met in Viet Nam while he was over there in the not so recent unpleasantries. Everyone in the suburban neighborhood thought it was so cute when she said how nice it was to live in a 'cuddle sack'. My suspicion was that the French that was used in Viet Nam included the not so nice version of cul-de-sac and she couldn't imagine all these innocent Americans saying they lived in an asshole, so she must be mishearing it. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: so-called sogennant definitions #126163 04/02/04 07:11 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago musick Carpal Tunnel musick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago someone could PM her not to read past the first screenful until she's replied.. Being her personal chauffeur through the big, big city upon her return, I'll inform her of where not to go... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: faux amis #126164 04/02/04 08:18 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 A cul is not precisely an asshole. It means buttocks but said a bit crudely than the regular term, "le fessier." Les fesses being the butt-cheeks. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: faux amis #126165 04/03/04 01:35 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 A cul is not precisely an asshole What about the sac part? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: faux amis #126166 04/03/04 03:57 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 B belMarduk Carpal Tunnel belMarduk Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2,891 Sac is just a bag. The cul de sac is the butt end of a bag. I guess they call a dead-end that because the U created by houses on both sides and at end make it look like the bottom of a bag. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter cul-de-sac revealed #126167 04/04/04 02:59 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,539 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,539 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA "Cul-de-sac - a blind pouch or tubular cavity closed at one end" Quite appropriate for describing a short dead-end street with houses along the length and around the circular end. Anatomically, if a baby is born with an interrupting membrane in the colon a short distance above the anus ("cul"), as does occur once in a while, then there is a "blind pouch or tubular cavity closed at one end," and the poor little tyke has a "cul-de-sac." Forty years ago this was presented as the origin of the term "cul-de-sac." Of course not everything we've been taught is necessarily true...but this one does make perfect sense. Maybe this should have all been below the line, in "Words from Medicine"... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: sogennant definitions #126168 04/07/04 11:34 PM Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean consuelo Carpal Tunnel consuelo Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2001 Posts: 2,636 Caribbean Finally, the deeply tanned, peeling, hammocking one casts her vote. EDITThanks to my personal chaufer in the big, big city, I knew not to read past the definitions before casting my vote, which should be obvious from the vote I cast Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 6 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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