Hi everyone, Could we be a bit careful while addressing a particular individual or group? The word Dude is actually used in negative sense and I don't think that it is appropriate to use it in a forum like this. The word carries the following meanings according to the American heritage dictionary. I think that we can address to other queries in a bit civilized way. and there are millions and millions of such civilized words available to address group members and Sanjay in this case raised a genuine issue and his dignity should be respected while responding to him.
1. noun. Informal. An Easterner or city person who vacations on a ranch in the West. 2. Informal. A man who is very fancy or sharp in dress and demeanor. 3. Slang. A man; a fellow. dudes. Persons of either sex. 4. transitive verb. duded, duding, dudes. Slang. To dress elaborately or flamboyantly: got all duded up for the show. 5. interjection. Slang. Used to express approval, satisfaction, or congratulations. 7. Our Living Language Cowboys and the Wild West are indelibly set in the minds of many as typical of Americaan association borne out by several common Modern English words that originated in the speech of the 19th-century western United States. One is dude, now perhaps most familiar as a slang term with a wide range of uses (including use as an all-purpose interjection for expressing approval: "Dude!"). Originally it was applied to fancy-dressed city folk who went out west on vacation. In this usage it first appears in the 1870s. The origin of the word is not known, but a number of other cowboy terms were borrowed by early settlers from American Spanish. These include buckaroo, corral, lasso, mustang, ranch, rodeo, and stampede. Buckaroo, interestingly, is an example of a word borrowed twice: it is an Americanized form of Spanish vaquero, which also made it into English as vaquero, a cowboy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "amit bhattt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Difficulty in sending mail Hello dude, Seems, you are accessing your yahoo mail account direct from the site. Some time back one or two members of our group were also facing the same snag. Anyway, you don't have any option but to fill it. Take help of any sighted person and this will be rectified. -- Thanks, Amit Bhatt Voice-Off: 1-800-566-4604 Ext 560 Mob: +91 935-006-3109 "A player that makes a team great is more valuable than a great player" Quoting Sanjay Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Friends, > I recently created a yahoo account. Whenever I compose and send a > mail, It is displaying a compose varification code which I cannot > see. > How to get rid of it? > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject > unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other > changes, please visit the list home page at > > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Top Online CJ Programs Get your Associate or Bachelor criminal justice degree while you work. http://tags.bluebottle.com/fc/MhtYWUjFdpoM0Fqv8861knwin9EGn9JfDSWqm/ To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
