Roast a chicken, a euphimism ?
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Roast a chicken, a euphimism ?
If not, why the inverted commas?
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Re: Roast a chicken, a euphimism ?
As if a royal roasts a chicken...
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Re: Roast a chicken, a euphimism ?
Because in a world were trump can be president, grammar, language and education, fall by the wayside of hyper-sensational twitter speak of a 13 year old.
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Re: Roast a chicken, a euphimism ?
How I read that is, he got on one knee for an unrelated reason, she got all excited and the poor prince had to roll with it
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Re: Roast a chicken, a euphimism ?
Because it's a quotation (repeating someone else's words), you use quotation marks:
Nothing to see here.Quotation marks, also called 'inverted commas', are of two types: single and double. British practice is normally to enclose quoted matter between single quotation marks, and to use double quotation marks for a quotation within a quotation: 'Have you any idea', he said, 'what "dillygrout" is?'
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Re: Roast a chicken, a euphimism ?
Oh, in case you're right; here's the authoritative source on this sort of good stuff:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define. ... rch-action
You may have hit the nail on the head.
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You may have hit the nail on the head.
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Re: Roast a chicken, a euphimism ?
Fair enough, although I would have thought the whole sentence could have been a quote. Thanks Cursed.Cursed wrote:Because it's a quotation (repeating someone else's words), you use quotation marks:Nothing to see here.Quotation marks, also called 'inverted commas', are of two types: single and double. British practice is normally to enclose quoted matter between single quotation marks, and to use double quotation marks for a quotation within a quotation: 'Have you any idea', he said, 'what "dillygrout" is?'
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Re: Roast a chicken, a euphimism ?
So using the extra intel we've now gained from UD, I think we can finally make sense of the sentence:
Harry got down on one knee while pulling his foreskin up and over his balls to create what looks like a roast chicken, drumsticks included.
Harry got down on one knee while pulling his foreskin up and over his balls to create what looks like a roast chicken, drumsticks included.
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Re: Roast a chicken, a euphimism ?
Is there any other way to make a proposal?StanDaam wrote:So using the extra intel we've now gained from UD, I think we can finally make sense of the sentence:
Harry got down on one knee while pulling his foreskin up and over his balls to create what looks like a roast chicken, drumsticks included.
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Re: Roast a chicken, a euphimism ?
He would have grabbed her around the waist pulling her in close and said "time to stuff this chicken".
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Re: Roast a chicken, a euphimism ?
I thought the chicken was already stuffed, hence the proposal!