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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Taboo words
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Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 10:34:54 EST
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> themselves into thinking that the real meaning is disguised; this is
> sometimes even the case, because some euphemisms are ambiguous (e.g.
> "making love" used to mean "necking", but now means "fornicating").

	Even earlier than that, "making love" meant what you might call
pitching woo, nothing more than talking. Check out Jane Austen's "Emma",
in the scene where the heroine is riding in a carriage with a young fellow who
starts "to make violent love to her". What is meant is impassioned entreaties
and not tearing her clothes off or anything physical at all.
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jcpatilla