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Re: Interjections
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Date: 
Wed, 29 Mar 2000 00:41:18 GMT
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Susan Hoover wrote:

In lugnet.dear-lego, Jeff Johnston wrote:

In lugnet.dear-lego, Richard Marchetti writes:

Fairness is all I wanted.  The people who freaked out about it must
want something else.

Feh.

Why is it that I only see this word in newsgroups and email, or on the
Scrabble board?  I have never actually heard anyone utter this sound.

FUT .o-t.fun for lack of a better place.

Is it really an interjection, without an exclamation point?  ;)  I say
"feh" all the time--it's an old Groening-ism from "Life in Hell" for me,
c.1983 or so.  I don't know where else it comes from, but he had to get it
from somewhere.

best

LFB



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(...) Why is it that I only see this word in newsgroups and email, or on the Scrabble board? I have never actually heard anyone utter this sound. FUT .o-t.fun for lack of a better place. (25 years ago, 28-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.dear-lego) ! 

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