I guess it's basically time for me to nake, since I'm about to head to bed and I sleep naked.
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I guess it's basically time for me to nake, since I'm about to head to bed and I sleep naked.
I like the idea of naking (wait, nakening? hm) as a pure verb, rather than the other synonyms we have which largely involve a negation: - undress - disrobe - unclothe - expose - take one's clothes off These are okay, but don't feel as pure still: - strip - peel - bare
I've been thinking more recently about nakedness as the natural state. A friend was arguing on facebook against laws incriminating naking even in one's own yard, & ppl analogized "what if you wanted to show GORE?" & he retorted "but it's not gore, it's just ME."
And that's stuck with me: the simple me-ness of my body, naked. Nakedness is a kind of home.
My initial inclination was to QT that first tweet and say "we should bring these words back!" and then my inner @LordChisholm was like "Normalize it yourself you coward" and I was like... tru. So I wrote this instead.
Update: in the year ish since this thread, I've continued to remember the word "nake", and I've used it a handful of times, but I haven't done much towards making it a thing