English.

[balinares]

A thought: when someone intends to 'gut you', they're planning on removing guts from your body. Whereas someone planning to 'bone you' would put an additional bone in your person, as it were.

I'll never fathom English.

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[shazomei.livejournal.com]

and technically, for humans, it's not really a bone either. :P

[balinares.livejournal.com]

I love that you thought it necessary to add 'for humans'. :D

[shazomei.livejournal.com]

I lose track of the furries who are really hardcore with and when relating to their character profiles; in which case, in terms of sex (or yiff, if you prefer), "boning" someone might not be entirely incorrect. Some animals do have bones in their penis. :O

[balinares.livejournal.com]

I know, I know! That's why I found your comment funny. Absolutely no offense intended, hon. {:)

[footpad.livejournal.com]

It's okay to bone a fish though.

Basically, for any given expression in English, you're better off inferring the meaning from the speaker's expression.

[balinares.livejournal.com]

> It's okay to bone a fish though.

I indeed find myself missing the expression to go with that sentence. :)

[thewerewolf.livejournal.com]

Technically, it's "debone" a fish - which makes sense. But somewhere along the way, the 'de' got dropped in common usage.

Then again, there's "flammable" and "inflammable" which should be exact opposites, but in fact, mean the same thing. :)

[kefen.livejournal.com]

It gets funnier when you pit UK English against US English, and you find out the same word can either mean "charity shop" or "underage prostitute".

Ask luna_the_cat about 'cheapies' (not sure of the actual spelling)!

[balinares.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't know that! :D Will ask Luna whenever she's back from whatever limbo she disappears in for months at a time ('Scotland', I believe the name goes).

[balinares.livejournal.com]

Buh! I posted a reply to your comment but it just seems to have disappeared?!

[kefen.livejournal.com]

... I got it by mail, indeed, so you haven't hallucinated it.

I was about to resent that remark about Scotland, even!

[janetraeness.livejournal.com]

And yet, if someone, say, wants to bone a chicken or a fish, you're right back to taking the bones out. ... I hope.

[balinares.livejournal.com]

I hope. c_c

[grey-wolf-xvii.livejournal.com]

I'LL CLUB THEM AND EAT THEIR BONES

[balinares.livejournal.com]

And yet you won't eat ravioli. Jackals just confuse the fuck outta me. :D

[thewerewolf.livejournal.com]

Oh?

Then why does French have "nous," which is "we" (first person plural) AND "on," which inexplicably ALSO means "we," but is conjugated as "il/elle" or "he/she" (third person singular)? :)

Maisons du verre... :)

[Yes, French lessons are making my head explode] :)

[balinares.livejournal.com]

I'm no specialist, but somehow I doubt there is any manner of causality link between the fuckedupness of French and English. :D

Now, to really make your head asplode: the word 'amour' is masculine when singular and feminine when plural. This is so fucked up that even native French speakers don't generally know this. :)

[issarlk.livejournal.com]

In what strange sentence can it shows ? "Les" is the same for masculine and feminine things.

[balinares.livejournal.com]

In strange sentences that have adjectives. "Les amours interdites de Tristan et Iseult."

[giza.livejournal.com]

We also drive on parkways and park on driveways. :-)

[balinares.livejournal.com]

Oh, yah, I remember that one as an Internet Oracle FAQ. :)