09-07-2005, 06:47 PM
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Cryptic Aura
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 6,003
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Originally Posted by davem
'Lovers' doesn't necessarily have to have a sexual connotation. I was using it in the sense of those who loved her.
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Originally Posted by Estelyn
I am and always have been a staunch advocate of using the word "love" (in this case, "lovers") broadly. It is only our time that has come to restrict it to a purely twosome relationship, including sex, thereby losing its many possibilities in the process.
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Originally Posted by Humpty Dumpty
`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'
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