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Chris -- 2018-04-11
March, 1977, Grand Jury testimony from Samantha Gailey, Roman Polanski’s 13-year-old paramour as reported in the Los Angeles Times (10/25/09):
“Then what happened?”
“And then he went down and started performing cuddliness.”
“What does that mean?”
“It means he went down on me, or he placed his mouth on my vagina . . . .”
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Welcome to the forum, Philip. This was posted a few weeks ago here: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=4063
At the time, Peter Forster noted that if it’s truly eggcornish, it doesn’t seem to have much currency. I can’t help but wonder whether this might have been a “cute” eupehmism that the young woman picked up from Polanski or someone else. Looking at the trial transcript doesn’t help answer that question.
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There you go, getting all “cunning linguist” on us.
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