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Vajazzle your what now?

10.03.2010
Dagmar Taylor
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Recently on Lopez Tonight, Jennifer Love Hewitt told George Lopez:

"After I broke up with my boyfriend, a friend of mine Swarovski-crystalled my, um, precious lady. It shone like a disco ball. Women should vajazzle their va-jay-jays!"

Lucy Mangan rightly pointed out in The Guardian:

"Is 'vajazzle your va-jay-jay', in fact, tautologous? Does one not simply 'vajazzle'? To whom should we apply for adjudication on this? And if the decision comes down on the side of tautology, can we appeal on the grounds that 'vajazzle your va-jay-jay' is quite the most joyous-sounding phrase ever to have been uttered and that just occasionally grammar should be forced to cede to pleasure?"

Yes, the language is beautiful — made-up (bedazzle + vagina = vajazzle) but beautiful. However, there are questions that just won't go away: What? Why? How? and Why? again.

I can't help thinking that this is just taking bling too far south!

(precious: wertvoll, kostbar) Vagina
doppelt gemoppelt; zweimal dasselbe sagend
ersuchen um
Urteil, gerichtliche Entscheidung
zugunsten von ... ausfallen
Einspruch einlegen, in die Berufung/Revision gehen
aus dem Grund
äußern
(zugunsten von etw.) die Führung abtreten
~ sb.: jmdn. verzaubern/mit etw. blenden; hier: verzieren, mit Strass besetzen
auffällig glitzernder Schmuck
in südliche Körperregionen
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