Innuendo and Overt Language

[andrewducker]

I could really have done with seeing this kind of thing when I was a teenager, and had no idea how this kind of thing was supposed to work, or why it was necessary.

Comments

[laplor.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you for this! I have an adult child who has a speech impairment. His words are fine, but he often misses innuendo and other social cues in a way that is similar to the way a person with an autistic spectrum disorder might.

Thus he needs to do a lot of meta level processing to understand the social cues in language.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

There's cultural variation in how much may be said, even if all cultures make some use of innuendo.

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

interesting!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

That's an really excellent description! (I mean, I can't vouch for the details, but just that it explains WHY some things are veiled.)

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Grrr! The typos!

[andrewducker]

Surely, in this case, writos?

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Shall we split the difference and agree on 'spelling mistakes'?

[andrewducker]

I shall resist the urge to call you a fascist prescriptionist, and agree to do so, for the sake of party unity.