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May 13, 2010 15:11

Urban Dictionary

- Textual Relations

Flirting, maintaining a romantic relationship via a text message from a cell phone, an email, or a postal mail letter, such as pen pals or maintenance of a long distance relationship. Textual relations are often used when two people feel the need to carefully choose their words; when thought and careful composition of thought over a longer period of time are required; when the fear of spoken conversation may be misunderstood or taken in the wrong context.

"I use my word processor to carefully compose my thoughts before sending my messages out to any of my textual relations."

- Textual Satisfaction

The feeling you get when your phone has a new message/missed call.

"dude I've been having textual satisfaction all day I already have 5 new messages."

- Textual Seduction

To flirt with and/or seduce someone through text messaging, whether they are in a relationship or not.

Snoop Dogg's "Sensual Seduction":
"She might be with him, but she's texting with me, me, meeeee.
We gon' text from the mall, we gon' text while we eat, eat, eaaaat.
So we can have a Textual Seduction.
Textual Seduction ooh! whoa!"

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Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_a_better_effect_on_the_teacher

Chance repetition of words is a natural feature of the language. Sometimes it happens because the repeated words are just part of the ordinary way in which verbs work... At other times it occurs because the same word is used twice with different functions.
- Fowler's, 1996 edition

Fowler's examines the following cases:
Had had - "Of course he too had had a choice and still had one." - I. Murdoch, 1989.
Do do - "The way in which we do do such things" - BBC Radio 4, 1990.
Her her - "She brings with her her daughter" - M. Drabble, 1985
That that - "Not that that would bother most people nowadays" - P. Lively, 1989.
Was was - "Such publicity as there was was left to the Chairman and senior editors" - P. Howard, 1990.
In in - "He'll be in in a minute" - N. Virtue, 1990.
It it - "While we're at it it wasn't me with the fedora" - M. Richler, 1980.
Out out - "We are getting people who had a right to be out out" - BBC 1 News, 1990.
That that that that - "That that I say is this: that 'that' that that gentleman has advanced, is not that, that he should have said to your Lordships." - attributed to "a pseudonymous writer" of the eighteenth century.
Is is - "The question is, is..."' - David Owen, 1987

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