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JakobVirgil  ·  4341 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What phrases do we often say that have a deeper meaning? (All languages)

Testimony is a reference to holding ones genitalia during oaths.





BLOB_CASTLE  ·  4341 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Is it really? Do you know any more if that story?

JakobVirgil  ·  4341 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not really both come from the Latin word testis meaning a witness. It literally means a third person standing beside . i.e. an impartial observer

the male gonands most likely got the name because they are a witness to virility or manhood. or because they side beside each other.

BLOB_CASTLE  ·  4340 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think it's interesting how in older times such common phrases/words came from the personification of such things as a penis.

JakobVirgil  ·  4340 days ago  ·  link  ·  

not a penis just balls ;)

although I am pretty sure pencil has the same root as penis

BLOB_CASTLE  ·  4340 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Haha, alright then.

They're spelling is strangely similar...

JakobVirgil  ·  4340 days ago  ·  link  ·  

but not pen because that is the pen feather of a bird. in Latin penis means tail.

BLOB_CASTLE  ·  4340 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So men have a forward facing tail. I think I just gained a nickname for my member.