"Booty" means goods taken by force, and (as I understand it) even with its current slang meaning it is not vulgar slang.
BTW, Ken had been living in the US for many years when he wrote the paper. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Bron <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009 6:51 Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] The Description of Finite Sequential Processes To: General forum <[email protected]> > Roger wrote: > > There was "The Description > > of Finite Sequential Processes" (1960). > > > > http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/DFSP.htm > > Wherein we read: > > A ? {apple, booty, dust, eye, night} > > I guess in 1960 Canada, "booty" didn't have its current > connotation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
