[lbo-talk] pansy power

[Andy]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I am pretty doubtful that the people in England who started using "pansy" to refer to effiminate men spoke French anyway. They probably had no clue of the French meaning.

Wasn't knowledge of French common in the aristocracy?

With the flowers vs. manliness thing, wasn't that more or less
inverted for some time in Japan?

-- 
Andy