From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j218UcGL017140 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 08:30:38 GMT Received: from [207.192.221.172] (helo=tsurukikun.no-ip.com) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1D62m2-0002ey-5u for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 08:30:34 +0000 Received: from ip6-localhost (ip6-localhost [IPv6:::1]) by tsurukikun.no-ip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3799F187441E for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 08:32:13 +0000 (UTC) From: Luke-Jr To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is anyone a prude? Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 08:32:09 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20050227220524.55878.qmail@web50409.mail.yahoo.com> <200502272314.57998.luke-jr@utopios.org> <42240CFC.7060002@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <42240CFC.7060002@cox.net> X-Face: )ZPAj=&;{;x.^R$k6(IXcp{iV@gk&XvzUcHadPGC(PD?AW3XB[UO_"GV'k3!N:C%?o.TG3Sk.o2KCl4,M IM-Address: luke-jr@jabber.org Public-GPG-Key-URI: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xD53E9583 Public-GPG-Key: 0xD53E9583 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503010832.11825.luke-jr@utopios.org> X-Archives-Salt: fe1f4cd0-aa61-4673-b194-7f74d191d0fb X-Archives-Hash: f8b846b597295415012b925414a94a0f 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/ -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list