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Re: Swearing! (was something else)
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 1 Jan 2000 03:53:19 GMT
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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 what an acronym really means. PITA is not as bad IMHO as WTF(I think
we've seen more than enough of that one lately) and SOB(which I can't say I've
seen), but I think that it is more the principle of using acronyms than the
actual acronyms themselves.
Ryan
In lugnet.general, Tom Stangl writes:
> 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) ;-)
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> James Brown wrote:
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> > 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.
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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).
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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/
>
> --
> Tom Stangl
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> ***SF Bay Area DSMs
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| Ryan Dennett wrote in message ... (...) think (...) I've (...) For what it's worth, over in rec.roller-coaster, we've been seeing a lot of SoB (^: (For the unenlightned, Paramount Kings Island is building the world's largest wooden coaster, and (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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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) ;-) (...) ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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