This evening, at my Italian class

[mojosmom]

we studied the idiom da . . . in . . ., as in "da giorno in giorno" (from day to day), discussed our favorite seasons, read a bit of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, described la nostra città ideale, and learned how to say "blow-job" in Italian.

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[atenea-nike.livejournal.com]

And where did that word come from? I'll have to check its semantics. Thanks for sharing :)

Did yuo know that the street word for masturbation in spanish "hacerse una paja" (literally, do oneself a straw) comes straight from latin? The simile was used in latin because of the seed relation (straw has seeds. Masturbation usually ends up with the spilling of seed). Am I sick to find this fact incredibly interesting?

[mojosmom.livejournal.com]

Am I sick to find this fact incredibly interesting?

Not at all! I think the derivation of words and phrases is fascinating. One of the reasons that I get aggravated with people who want to artificially "simplify" spellings is that how a word is spelled, or how it naturally changes, can tell us a lot about where it came from.