Sorry…
I know the the word kinky deals with sexual oddities. To me, kinkyness (in the sexual context) is far from any kind of perversion, so I hope, the embarassment can be forgiven…
Kinky hair is hair that makes some rather sharp changes in it's direction. We even have this term in the German language. I just looked it up in my "sailor's dictionary". Ropes that are not stored properly tend to have "Kinken"
[kinks, nips]. I know that from sailing. The rope just doesn't straighten itself out anymore, it even can have some "corners", as if it has a memory.
So for me it was – and that brings us back to the interesting design excursion – the meaning of not running in a normally predictable direction. Which applies to interesting design work –
and to sexual oddities.
The connotation of the mentioned oddities is not quite unwanted though. My impression of those overdone things reminds me a bit of those oddities using lots of "devices" as F. Zappa said. You know, that bling bling stuff…
Enough said. I assure, I didn't mean to offend anyone. The idea of Patrick Stewart as Cap. Piccard smoking a pipe (How would his famous "Make it so!" sound pressed around a clenched pipe?) aboard his battle bridge seemed so weird – kinky to me… And no sexual meaning within that!
I promise to learn every day about the maybe unwanted meanings
between the lines. The most interesting thing about a foreign language! Thank you for your input.
