On Tuesday 01 March 2005 06:34, D. Wokan wrote: > Luke-Jr wrote: > >On Sunday 27 February 2005 22:34, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > >>While you are at it, you should also kick any person that says WTF since > >>*everyone* knows they just said "what the fuck" in front of the whole > >>channel. > > > >I'm sure that I'm not the only person who uses "WTF" as an abbreviation > > for "what the fsck" instead of the more common acronym. > > You're still only one step removed as everyone with even one geek gene > in their DNA knows you're just slipping a geek-slanged "what the fuck"
Sure... and Ciaran *really* meant to ask about prunes, not prudes... > using an unfortunate program name abbreviation past a censorship filter > and everyone without thinks you just made a typo saying "what the fuck" > or did it on purpose to get past a censorship filter. It may not be proper English (does anyone care too much for that?), but 'what the fsck' actually has meaning. Something along the lines of 'what [ just happened | are you talking about ]? sounds like something that should be run through fsck.' (basically, it didn't make sense). If the alternate 'wtf' has an actual meaning, I'm not sure I know what it is. When I want to get the same idea as alt-'wtf' across, I generally use 'wtc'-- 'what the crap'-- which makes no more sense than alt-'wtf' does. -- Luke-Jr Developer, Utopios http://utopios.org/ -- [email protected] mailing list
