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Re: Swearing! (was something else)
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 1 Jan 2000 03:25:22 GMT
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PITA is entirely different - if your child sees it, you can tell them it means
just about anything you want, and they can't find it in a dictionary (except as a
BREAD) ;-)
James Brown wrote:
> In lugnet.general, James Brown writes:
> > In lugnet.general, Richard Parsons writes:
> > > (Its a joke, its a joke ******. Relax. Here, maybe you need some soma.)
> > <editing mine>
> >
> > Folks, I hate to be a PITA, here, but will ya cut the swearing, please? I
> > have to say the casual one-offs here in .general bug me a whole lot more than
> > anything else.
>
> Someone pointed out to me in e-mail that this is a case of the pot calling the
> kettle black (for PITA).
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> I didn't (and don't) think that acronyms fall into the same catagory, but
> someone obviously does, so I'll refrain from doing it in the future.
>
> My apologies.
>
> James
> http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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 | | Re: Swearing! (was something else)
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| IMHO, acronyms DO fall in the same catagory because it is just a way to "push it to the limit" so to speak and all your doing is abbreviating the profanity that otherwise wouldn't be permitted and it really isn't that hard for a kid to figure out (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Swearing! (was something else)
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| (...) Someone pointed out to me in e-mail that this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black (for PITA). I didn't (and don't) think that acronyms fall into the same catagory, but someone obviously does, so I'll refrain from doing it in the (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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