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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 15 Nov 2001.
Re: Video conversation with Annie Ascii (GG!E4)

Re: Video conversation with Annie Ascii (GG!E4)

From Mel <rrc...@hotmail.com> · alt.ascii-art · 15 Nov 2001 01:46 · View full thread · report
On 15 Nov 2001 01:16:16 GMT, mik...@bluedwarf.spam.net (MJP) sucked
my dick and said:
>On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 18:40:47 -0600, Taliszanna <tal...@usask.ca> wrote:
>>What is acceptable may be different where you are.  That is entirely possible.
>In fact what is acceptable today may no longer be acceptable tomorrow, That is
>the nature of the English and American languages. I don't know how much other
>languages drift over time, but the English and American languages are fluid,
>words change meaning, gain new meanings, and drop out of common use frequently.
>Sup, to dine
>'sup, contracted "whats up" contracted from "hey fellows what are you doing"
> adopted I belive from Que Pasa (paso) "whats is happening/ has happened"
>New words and new definitions for words all become valid provided enough
>people use them over a long enough period of time.

new words are always being added to a language which is in current use...
but rarely are entire grammatical conventions abandoned as TAL is suggesting
by her refusal to correctly refer to a country or ship in the feminine...

>With the "P.C." social movement gaining support terms like Fatso or Skinny
>are not just denigrations but outright vulgarisms. (BTW if you know what
>a word means, is it a word? ie "fatso" isn't in my dictionary, so is it a
>valid word?)

The OED publishes these words... the entire OED is massive... what you have
is a small subset...

>Anyway back to my point, Correct language use is malable and oft' insufferable ;)

but a ship is still a 'she'...

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From: Mel <rrc...@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Video conversation with Annie Ascii (GG!E4)
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 03:46:24 +0200
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