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[Hydrogen]

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[CaptainDantes]

I feel so stupid...I don't get it

[mintpro]

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.

[talbs]

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.

[CaptainDantes]

Psh. Of course I knew that.