On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 02:49:23PM -0600, William Robb wrote: # # ----- Original Message ----- # From: "ann sanfedele" # Subject: Re: Linguistic peeve: "minty" # # # >grrrrr.... # > # >I feel your pain... however, I think "minty" evolved on ebay because there # >are certain phrases you can't use # >on ebay in a title... # > # >e.g. I can't say "as new" but I can say "minty" - they actually took # >down one of my auctions when # >i used the phrase "as new" in my title !
I figured that it came from the ESL crowd who conflated the two terms. # > # >so get off my back you guys - I'll try not to use anymore "trendy" new # >speak.. O RLY? # > # >gimmyabreak! # # It's actually pretty funny that a guy in his 30s is sawing off on you for # your use of young people's language. I'm only in my thirties if you use radix 13-16. I did advertise my last birthday as my 0x30th, but I think most of the people on this list would represent it as 48. # # William Robb # # # -- # PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List # [email protected] # http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net # to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and # follow the directions. -- Photographs are like sentences, the best ones have both subjects and verbs. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
