Ok, I will bite, what about being 'pissed off' Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD
'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > On Sep 24, 2013, at 8:17 AM, DASDBILL2 <[email protected]> wrote: > > An alternative to Bowdlerizing a word or phrase that is controversial is to > acronym [1] it. E.g., now we may begin using PC in addition to PKB to > describe some others' posts. Or, in a rare moment of non-puerile thinking, > maybe even our own. > > Bill Fairchild > Franklin, TN > > [1] Theoretically, any given word can be verbed. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Paul Gilmartin" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 8:03:27 AM > Subject: Re: Pissing contest(s) > > I had hoped I could resist contributing to this thread; alas, > apparently not. > >> On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:29:40 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: >> >> David, >> >> No. I in fact regret the lingering influence of 17th-century >> puritanism on English usage. In, say, Italian the cognate verb, >> pisciare, has always been usable even in what used to be called polite >> society. Preoccupation with avoiding four-letter words in English has >> had very unfortunate effects. The forced choice between sounding like >> a medical textbook or a guttersnipe in talking about the obvious >> topics is disagreeable. > But I have a fairly clear recollection (but can't find in the archives here; > perhaps it was ASSEMBLER-LIST) of an instance where you chastised > a writer who failed to "bowdlerize" some content. > > (Perhaps, but not exactly, ASSEMBLER-LIST, 2012-02-12, wherein > you elected to supply a "bowdlerized" translation from German.) > > However, David was playing not on your puritanism, but on your > erudition, in my perception. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
