--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <jflanegi@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Isn't this forum open to all for public discussion? > > > > Yet you go out of your frame constantly. Saying: > > > > 'Fuck off and die' claiming this to be just a nice > > > > american idiom. > > > > > > Contrary to what Judy told you, it really *is* a > > > fairly innocuous American idiom. > > > > You really do the culture here an injustice by your statement > > above. No one I've ever known uses such a statement like this > > innocuously. > > You live in a very protected neighborhood then. :-) > > Working on Wall St. in New York, in offices filled > with well-educated stockbrokers, traders, and pro- > grammers, I would estimate that I heard this phrase > a dozen times a day. That's where I developed a > liking for it (along with "Go figure."). It conveys > the idea of "go away and stop wasting my time and > yours" better than almost any other, and with a > remarkable economy of language. In the offices > I worked in (Citibank and Salomon Brothers), many > people turned it into an acronym (FOAD) and wrote > it out on little signs so that they could hold up > the sign and tell someone to go away without even > having to pause their phone conversations to do so. :-) > > > Anyone I know, myself included would be very offended by > > the use of such a term directed at them. > > Maybe you need a period of time in New York to work > out that fear of language thang, eh? That IS what > we're talking about, right? You give certain words > power over you, to the point that you're even afraid > to spell out the first word in phrase while complaining > about it here.
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