Re: more intransitive verb business (Jim Breen)

"Curt Fischer" <tentrillion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote ...
Thankfully, there appears to be no such word as 竦まる.

We haven't had a good puzzel around here for ages so would anybody like to try to work out what thought track generated by the above sentence led me to click on a link to a page that included the following text.

"the likeness to the word "fornicator" = NOT FUNNY to me ... being the girl in the 5th grade at a small Catholic school that used that big word while giving an oral book report in front of the class + one nun. Flying habits in warp speed to the Principal's office. I just thought it was a technical term & that it was OK to use. I could have reported that the kids at lovers lane, in this book, were getting killed for screwing, but NO, I said "Fornicating." .... ahhhh, what a memory."
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