Fall
Fall verb - To go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily.
Refer
Refer verb - To have a relation or connection.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Phineas and Ferb often fall into this; they're canonically stepbrothers, but refer to each other as brothers and have been raised together since they were toddlers.
- The word "Infierno", used to refer to Hell as a place, is never censored or even afraid upon at all; "jokes" where characters can't say the word "hell" fall completely flat after dubbing.
Source: Your Normal Is Our Taboo - Note if you're a Japanese-male character on this adventure, you'll more often than not fall victim to the Gender Vocabulary Slip, as Japanese is a language with very gender-specific pronouns for men and women to refer to themselves with.
Source: Twelfth Night Adventure
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