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| | | Christopher Lannan wrote in message ... (...) for (...) Of course just to be troublesome, the S word is actually a perfectly valid English word. As a verb, it is conjugated similarly to "sit". The only reason it is vulgar is that a rather uppity (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Language slipping? —James Simpson
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| | | | | (...) Most of the words in English that refer to "basic" things or actions have a French counter part; the English words are generally considered the baser, informal, or perhaps "lower-class" of the two, while the the French words for the same thing (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Language slipping? —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | | | (...) When I read this in italicized, quoted form, it looked like you were discussing the "Sword" as in "pointy metal stick." I confess I had difficulty following your post until I got my brains unscrambled. Dave! (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Language slipping? —Ian Warfield
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| | | | | | (...) Try "centimes" - a centime is 1/100th of a franc. (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Language slipping? —Tobias Möller
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| | | | (...) In Sweden, people (well, teenagers actually) use it (or used it) together with "Oh" when things were cool, or went wrong, if a car didn´t stop and hit a wall or something. --Tobias (25 years ago, 24-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Language slipping? —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Yes, people do here too. (25 years ago, 24-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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