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「Words, speak」with「skin」seems to have a weak connection at best to the given meanings, unless「speaking with skinned back skin」refers to the use of FLATTERY for the purpose of seduction. Relates to the English phrase「skin of one's teeth」since that idiom refers to one side being slightly ahead or succeeding when others do not. The English expression of「escaping by the skin of my teeth」makes no sense of course, but the original form of「escaping with my skin in her teeth」does indeed represent narrowly avoiding disaster of one's prepuce and surroundings during a session of「oral intercourse with the skin」as these elements depict. Anyone with a prepuce between her or his teeth certainly has a BIASED, ONE-SIDED ADVANTAGE over the person sporting that particular foreskin, and the unfortunate one being threatened would be wise to begin babbling FLATTERY.
「Talking about someone's foreskin」to them can only be FLATTERY, since it simply is not pretty. Left element literally as「tonguing motions in mouth」with「foreskin」produces the best fit with given meanings of UNFAIR, and ARGUE, causing an ARGUMENT and perhaps ONE-SIDED if we can assume some reciprocity is occurring simultaneously.「Speaking into or with a foreskin」will naturally become a ONE-SIDED conversation, and if the client has not paid for pleasant conversation but other services instead, may lead to an ARGUMENT, and particularly so if the charges are determined on a duration-of-time-lapsed basis rather than a fulfillment-of-performance basis, which would then be UNFAIR to the client.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: unfair; to flatter
Japanese EDRDG: argue, biased, one-sided
Unihan extended: argue; biased; one-sided
Always keep in mind that these glyphs most likely were originally designed by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that),
representing Chinese society many thousands of years ago, but intended NOT as a written or spoken language when created.
If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system!
Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles?
Yes! It is, and often with multiple correct answers to each riddle, the same as is true today.
Sex had no shame in ancient China.
Why would it?
But, have there been necessary rewrites and altered explanations of the original elemental meanings over the centuries?
No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else.
This site describes glyph meanings, not people.
These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect.
The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language?
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Despite how seemingly bad our human existence is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better?
Or could they have been worse?
By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs,
you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any lexicon.
This site explains multiple meanings of glyphs ignored or censored by other sources, generally as being too embarrassing to admit today.
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