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REP 🚫
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Word underlines 'ladies' with a red line. Evidently, it disagrees with my choice of the word when editing Opening Earth. My problem is the two alternative words if suggests are used in the story. 'Women' isn't right in my mind for Cindy is still a virgin,but Betty, Carol, and Rita are. and hasn't reached her age of majority. I use 'people' to refer to all of my associates. 'Girls' isn't right for a similar reason as 'women'.

Sorry, the line is usually green, but I have also seen it as red.

Can anyone suggest a different word that fits the story? I'am tired of seeing the red underline.

Switch Blayde 🚫

@REP

I wouldn't worry too much with Word underlining your word choice. It would help, though, if you provided the sentence.

jimq2 🚫

@REP

I had similar trouble with the dictionary. I typed, "The lens was broken." The dictionary wanted, "The lens were broken." Nope, lens is singular.

Dominions Son 🚫
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@REP

'Women' isn't right in my mind for Cindy is still a virgin,but Betty, Carol, and Rita are.

This sentence doesn't make sense as written. Either Cindy is a virgin but the other's aren't or Cindy isn't a virgin and the other's are or they are all virgins and there is no reason for separating Cindy from the others.

Either way, I disagree with the general point that "women" excludes virgins. The difference between women and girls has everything to do with age, and nothing to do with being sexually active.

Replies:   LupusDei
LupusDei 🚫

@Dominions Son

The difference between women and girls has everything to do with age, and nothing to do with being sexually active.

I would tend to mostly agree. However, the actual differing factor could originally been marriage status.

In Latvian (a living relic of a language possibly calling close to the roots of proto-indo-european) any woman can only be meita = "daughter", sieva = "wife" or māte = "mother" and nothing else, derivatives of those excluding no other word to refer to a human female generally (you always could by profession, role or trait since every noun and adjective is gendered).

Godess is always "mother"; spinster, servant and prostitute are "daughter" regardless of age, but while "wife" is the most neutral term that almost completely map to general concept of "woman" it necessarily implies adulthood, while the modern politcorrect derived term sieviete technically doesn't. Funny enough, meitene the modern world for "girl" is derived from "daughter" as derisive diminutive, and has swallowed the meaning "girlfriend" whole.

Therefore to me, a girl can be of any age or sexual activity, but she's unmarried and thus a dependent and potentially sexually available, while a woman is assumed to be someone's wife and thus perceived as independent equal.

Replies:   Switch Blayde
Switch Blayde 🚫

@LupusDei

Therefore to me, a girl can be of any age or sexual activity, but she's unmarried and thus a dependent and potentially sexually available, while a woman is assumed to be someone's wife and thus perceived as independent equal.

From an American's perspective, that is weird.

A girl is a female adolescent while a woman is an adult female. It's an age/maturity difference.

It's actually inappropriate nowadays to call a woman a girl.

Replies:   Switch Blayde
Switch Blayde 🚫

@Switch Blayde

I don't want the police checking on me so I won't try it, but I bet if you Google "porn sexy girl having sex" you'll get a warning about child porn, but if you replace "girl" with "woman" you will get results. I'm sure Google considers girl sex as child porn because girl is an adolescent while woman is an adult.

Replies:   LupusDei  LupusDei
LupusDei 🚫
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@Switch Blayde

Really? I haven't googled for porn since the AI image generation quality become decent, but back in the day all porn models were girls.

ETA: to think about, I have never searched porn with "woman" nor I have seen that as tag on porn content (maybe in mature categories? haven't paid attention) it's always girl or girls.

LupusDei 🚫
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@Switch Blayde

Okay, I did "porn sexy girl having sex" Google search and I got results, links, images, videos, short videos. The AI mode simply returned links list with a short caption "there's links to expand search on this topic." Form first 20 results 8 were Pornhub, others were Xhamster, RedTube, Youporn, Xvideos, all big sites.

No warning, no fuss. Well, yes "safe search" is off.

I googled "young teen girl fuck daddy" and got similar results, now dominated buy Xvideos. I'm pretty certain none of those are actually underage.

To get that "Stop! Child porn ahead!" warning sign of our (Latvian) national filter (yes, I have seen those) you have to go deep in very shady places and follow random links under very unapologetically underage images.

madnige 🚫

@REP

Word underlines 'ladies' with a red line

Red wiggle is word claiming a spelling error, green for grammar (at least, it used to be). Have you tried R-click and 'Add to dictionary'? IIRC, for the grammar flag, there was an option something like 'Always ignore this error', which (should) hide all those 'errors' in the current document.

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