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in reply to a message by Wordsmith
I mean, what's earthier than a bog?
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Exactly! I adore bogs :) :) :)
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They're neat ecologically, but tend to be treacherous, full of bloodsucking bugs and decay, which makes them foul smelling and pretty miserable to be around by human standards.
It's one thing if it coincidentally matches a word in another language, but a bog is not something most people would want to be named after intentionally, in English.
It's one thing if it coincidentally matches a word in another language, but a bog is not something most people would want to be named after intentionally, in English.
This message was edited 12/13/2020, 9:42 AM
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What's adoring about toilets
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Why not searching the internet to see if there's another meaning? It obviously costs less time than replying 'why adore toilets' to multiple people in this thread.
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I hadn't heard a toilet called a bog before. In the United States, a bog refers to wet, spongy, poorly drained soil that is often acidic and full of accumulated plant material like peat and moss.
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Bogs aren't called toilets where I live
I had no idea a bog was a toilet. I'm from the US.
I had no idea a bog was a toilet. I'm from the US.
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Right, but now that you know, and realizing that in this global culture peoples’ children will travel or possibly emigrate to places where bogs are commonly associated with toilets, you can see how this would put a lot of people off. Even ones from the U.S.
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Yes, I appreciate the enlightenment. I never said that I was considering this for a human child, however.
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I never said you were either.
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Me too. They're so beautiful and strange
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How are toilets beautiful
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I think they mean the other definition for "bog", which is: "wet muddy ground too soft to support a heavy body."
Like a marsh or swamp.
Like a marsh or swamp.
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Yes, a marsh. I've never heard of a toilet being called a bog
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ditto
To English-speaking ears it is hideous.
To English-speaking ears it is hideous.
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To your English-speaking ears, you mean :)
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“The bog is a colloquial expression in British English for a toilet. Originally "bog" was used to describe an open cesspit and the word was later applied to the privy connected to it. More wide-spread is the usage bogroll, meaning toilet paper.“
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I'm afraid that in British English, a bog is a toilet. So, yeah, some ears just hear what they're used to; mine included.
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