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Lexical Semantics

Posted on September 16, 2007 by Chris

Not that it’s relevant or apropos of anything and not that I am particularly well today and not that I’ve done ANYTHING related to doing the work that I talk here so feverishly about doing, BUT -

I was thinking just now on my walk home from a meeting (yes you know who was there) about the difference between a hustler and a whore. How could I fault anyone for being a whore if I’ve been one too, right? So I looked them up.

A whore is someone who engages in sexual activity for payment or who misuses their talents or who sacrifices their self-respect for the sake of personal or financial gain.

A hustler is someone who aggressively and dishonestly takes advantage of others for personal gain.

There is something more honest, it would seem, about being a whore.

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