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

On 15 Nov 2001, MJP wrote:

> 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.

	[**nods**]  It's true -- welcome to the Post-modern world, ladies
and gents.

> 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?)

	As far as i see, it is slang -- which is an entirely different
sub-section of the main language for any given country.  "Fatso" can be
either a proper noun or a common noun, (if you strip it of it's
capitalisation, ie. "fatso").

   ,=====================================.
  :   But N-E-ways, you get the picture,  : 
  : eh?  'Merican English is right bloody :
  : twisted.  It's so eclectic that if ya : 
  : weren't born 'ere, it'll take, like,  :
  :   YEARS t' "get"... an' it's nuthin'  :
  : new fer foreign students to have lots :
  :            o' difficulty.            ;  
   "===============: ;=================="
         ""","     |/           ,qppppp.     Yes, my child, of course.
        @|[..(   _;            qMMM____;M      And if they don't eat
         :__~/     . ,,,       qMMM.^^(Mp     their tuna-toast in the 
     ,++-: '-++,   (^./       .qMMM__,/Mp     morning, then it really
     :  . `.; \ \ /`W         MMMMM_'YMMp       messes things up!
     :  :____  ) Y W          dMMMM   YMMp               ;
_TAL '_______:`=._J______     dMMMp    ):#   ...........;
========================Y     |  |    / :
########################|     |   \^^^A  \  
########################|     |____\  :|__\
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM|      / ,'   :| '
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMA     /       +| 


 Heheheh...

  .   .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .

                        Sincerely, "Her Poopiness"
            (a.k.a Tali/Jessie Brown/Pope Dances-with-Earwax)
                   http://talis_white_crow.tripod.com/

            .============================.
           :   Jolt Cola: tastes filthy,  :
           ;  kicks like a mule on speed. ;
            "=============. ,============"
                           \|
                            '      TAL

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