Re: [gentoo-dev] Is anyone a prude?

[Luke-Jr <luke-jr@utopios.org>]

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.
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Luke-Jr
Developer, Utopios
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