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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
actually i didn't know, and only after several days of comments which sounded stranger and stranger to me i took a look on urbandictionary.com, then i understood. at first i was only thinking of the actual meaning of the word, i didn't understand either the huge reaction to it.
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Me too!!! I also had to look up the word nookie in the Urban Dictionary
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IMO, this whole thing is just too silly for words (excuse the pun). Nook, is a real word which is used in common everyday language. The other word doesn't look the same - when written down. It doesn't even sound the same or have the same meaning (thank goodness for that)... and it's a SLANG word, to boot. Just because a few letters of a word are the same as another, doesn't make it the same word by any stretch of the imagination. If that were the case, the mind truly boggles!
Most people around the world grow up speaking several or even many - different languages, (myself included - but Americans generally EXCLUDED) so we have known how to use a dictionary from childhood. If we had to run around making those kind of mistakes, well... we would truly be lost then wouldn't we? We may as well revert back to drawing on cave walls.