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Originally Posted by Trippin2.0
I've always had a problem with this term and the like ... Seedy bars, seedy clubs, anything seedy and the visual I get is always some place covered in semen  Why oh why oh why brain????? lol |
I was just thinking about SEMEN yesterday night.
Here is my story.
When I first landed in US more than 20 years ago, I was invited to a party. During the food prep time (it was grilling outside in hot Texas summer), people kept saying a word that I mapped in my mind to SEMEN.
I was quite shocked. These Texans openly talked about SEMEN in a completely non-chalant manner, all the time.
Later, I learned that they were talking about SALMON. I did not know how to pronounce SALMON or SEMEN and the way Texans pronounced SALMON seemed to me to mean SEMEN - the word that I had only seen in print and never known how to pronounce.
LUCKILY, the technological advancements have solved this and similar problems for me - free dictionary online has a button to sound out an unfamiliar word, both in standard US and standard British pronunciation. Except... they still do not sound out in Texan accent
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