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[xkcd] Magic Words
#1
Posted 17 June 2014 - 08:00 PM
#2
Posted 18 June 2014 - 04:30 AM
I feel so stupid...I don't get it
#3
Posted 18 June 2014 - 05:57 AM
I feel so stupid...I don't get it
I had to consult explain xkcd as well: http://www.explainxk.../index.php/1383
Typically the term "foot fetish" refers to a sexual attraction to people's feet. Here, though, Megan is a linguist, so for her the term "foot" refers not to the body part but to the term's meaning in prosody. In this context, "foot" means, per Wikipedia, "the basic metrical unit that generates a line of verse in most Western traditions of poetry," and thus "foot fetish" means an attraction to words that follow such a format.
Edited by mintpro, 18 June 2014 - 05:58 AM.
#4
Posted 18 June 2014 - 06:09 AM
I had to consult explain xkcd as well: http://www.explainxk.../index.php/1383
Thanks for explaining that, otherwise I would have been clueless as well.
#5
Posted 18 June 2014 - 03:11 PM
Psh. Of course I knew that.
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