in reply to Croaking and Carping
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Simply say that "to carp" is colloquial for "to nag, to bother, to warn, to complain." They'll get it.
It's not like other languages don't have double meanings and puns and homonyms too. For example, there is a kanji in Japanese for the word "woman." There is another kanji which is simply three copies of "woman" crammed into one character, which means "noisy" or "immoral." Go ahead, tell me that there's no ancient cultural significance to that linguistic choice.
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Re^2: Croaking and Carping
by gregor42 (Parson) on Jul 20, 2005 at 15:52 UTC | |
Re^2: Croaking and Carping
by Duco (Sexton) on Oct 08, 2005 at 00:13 UTC | |
by halley (Prior) on Oct 08, 2005 at 01:24 UTC | |
by Duco (Sexton) on Oct 14, 2005 at 23:32 UTC | |
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on May 20, 2006 at 03:11 UTC |
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