• humorlessrepost@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Just semantically, I’d expect m4m4bear to be a man seeking a man who is seeking a big hairy man.

    Like Bob wants to find a big hairy man, but doesn’t want to go it alone, and so wants another man as a partner in the persuit.

    I just realized this is why my friends think I have the tism.

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      3 days ago

      It could also mean that the seeker is a bear, and is looking for another man, but that man must be interested in bears, so they would be interested in him.

      Man seeking (Man who is seeking a bear)

    • Old Sage Rick@lemmy.zip
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      Semantically I would agree with you since usually the nomenclature is tonuse a + or & to denote that the seeker is looking for two or more people, however I have seen a 4 train often enough for it to be also a common way.

      Also cheers for the tism