[LMB] booty for butt

[Sylvus Tarn]

On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 16:09 +0000, Doctor Nightfall wrote:
> Although it [booty] IS a more... friendly-sounding word, isn't it?
> 

Assuming I parsed your pronoun correctly, only if you're a guy.
Butt-ugly is just a semi-humorous way of characterizing website design
(& similar) that's an offense to the eye; but ``booty'' has all *sorts*
of unpleasant patriarchal associations.  

Thus I'll use the former in regular conversation, but not the latter,
unless I'm trying to make a point about sexist misogynists, with whom I
mostly associate the term.  Not that the original booty that pirates,
pillagers and the like collected didn't also include a lot of rapine,
and hence, I suppose, is part of the reason for the linguistic shift.
So the word always had rather negative connotations for  me; now it just
has more.

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