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Pedantry (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 46 points 1 year ago (19 children)

That’s going to be me and my peeve regarding the malapropism “assless chaps”.

Chaps with asses are PANTS!

(Turns back to manual typewriter and resumes typing furiously.)

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    To me when someone says assless chaps it refers to the configuration of wearing chaps without anything underneath. Similar to "going commando" being a configuration of clothing meaning pants with no underwear.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Indeed, chaps by definition have no ass.

    They’re assless pants, really.

    Tangentially, I hate it that pulling someone’s pants down became popular and was called “pantsing.” You’re not putting pants ON the person…

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    My (completely un-researched, straight from my ass) hypothesis is that the term comes from British English and not American English. In the UK "pants" are your underwear, so "pansting" somebody is exposing their underwear.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I hate it that pulling someone’s pants down became popular and was called “pantsing.” You’re not putting pants ON the person…

    Do you feel similarly about shelling peanuts?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Oh excellent point, I hadn’t thought about it.

    I think it’s different for parts of living things.

    Shelling is removing the entire shell. “Peeling” something doesn’t mean adding peel, and “pitting” means removing the pit.

    However, for bodies, removing skin in general is “skinning,” but if you lose the skin of just your hand it’s called de-gloving. Removing the bowels isn’t called “boweling,” but “disembowling.”

    If I said someone did a “shirting,” maybe I’m weird but I’d think of getting hit with a shirt before removing someone’s shirt. And in hockey, a “jerseying” is more about pulling the jersey over the head than removing it.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Removing the bowels isn’t called “boweling,” but “disembowling.”

    But the synonymous process of removing the guts is called gutting.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Should it be de-pantsing, or disempantsing, then? I think it'd be the former, but I want it to be the latter

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I think most people would say “de-pants” but I agree with you that it SHOULD be disempantsing.

    Though I’m worried the “em” implies the pants are being extracted.

    “Dis-pantsing” is also really good though. Then when it happens people can be like “Jimmy got a dis-pants-ation”

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