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Re: Slang
DIR By: HappyHeretic
Date: April 24, 2015, 4:16 am
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Funny how the profanity filter has us talking about profanity.
Wouldn't it be better if it wasn't there :D
All it would take for the profanity filter to work correctly
would be to check for an undesirable word with a space before it
and after it.
That way at least c ockney would get through ok - but the
alternative word for rooster wouldn't.
Mike HM
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Re: Slang
DIR By: HappyHeretic
Date: April 24, 2015, 4:18 am
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Regarding slang - a few years ago my (then) teenage children
were using the word "gay" to mean "bad".
And of course, "bad" means "good" anyway.
Mike HM
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Re: Slang
DIR By: bradley
Date: April 24, 2015, 10:11 am
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--- Quote from: Poppy link ---
>
> All the kids here say 'wicked' for brilliant. My granddad was
a ****ney so my mum used rhyming slang like 'plates of meat' for
feet. And when I was a kid I remember when 'smashing' came into
common use meaning brilliant, but was told at school and by my
parents that I shouldn't use it - I did though. And these days
one thinks of the original happy/merry meaning of 'gay' and
today's quite different meaning of that word.
>
--- End Quote ---
I remember a dr who show saying both wicked and brillant for a
description for something interesting.
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Re: Slang
DIR By: bradley
Date: April 24, 2015, 10:15 am
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When I spent 3 years in England while in service (RAF Lakenheath
in Suffolk, not far from Cambridge), I learned that if you knock
on the door of someone to make sure they are awake, you are
"knocking them up" which in the US means you got (knocked up) or
are-getting a woman pregnant. I love words and how they can be
used.
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Re: Slang
DIR By: Poppy
Date: April 24, 2015, 11:06 am
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--- Quote from: bradley link ---
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> When I spent 3 years in England while in service (RAF
Lakenheath in Suffolk, not far from Cambridge), I learned that
if you knock on the door of someone to make sure they are awake,
you are "knocking them up" which in the US means you got
(knocked up) or are-getting a woman pregnant. I love words and
how they can be used.
>
--- End Quote ---
It still means that here too Bradley. In the old days there
used to be a guy with a long pole who went round the streets
knock on the windows of mill workers. He was called the knocker
upper. The mind boggles with all these different connotations
of common words.
Over here it is not just male hens who are called cocks it is
all male birds. I wonder if it will let me say peacock.
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Re: Slang
DIR By: Piper
Date: April 24, 2015, 1:46 pm
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--- Quote from: bradley link ---
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> When I spent 3 years in England while in service (RAF
Lakenheath in Suffolk, not far from Cambridge), I learned that
if you knock on the door of someone to make sure they are awake,
you are "knocking them up" which in the US means you got
(knocked up) or are-getting a woman pregnant. I love words and
how they can be used.
>
--- End Quote ---
Too funny! ;D
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Re: Slang
DIR By: bradley
Date: April 24, 2015, 10:40 pm
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Something I habitually do with people I am friends with (in
person) is say "I caught you!", as they are doing something
innocuous, with a grin on my face, just to see what they say,
you aught to try it sometimes and watch their expression to that
of a little boy or girl. Anyways, this guy Mark who I said it
to, I have said it before to him, so it wasnt a surprise to hear
it from me, but he responded, "I'm innocent and I'm as pure as
the driven snow." We got to talking about the term pure as
the driven snow a slang that is sorta funny in depicting moral
purity.
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Re: Slang
DIR By: Piper
Date: April 24, 2015, 11:04 pm
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I caught you! I like that. Will hafta remember that one. :)
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Re: Slang
DIR By: bradley
Date: April 25, 2015, 8:47 am
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Got to thinking on it, and I think "pure as the driven snow"
depicts good morality because when the snow touches the ground,
it often gets dirty, and becomes unclean snow (sorta like us),
but if its "driven" by the winds, it stays in its pure white
form, never touching the ground.
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Re: Slang
DIR By: Poppy
Date: April 25, 2015, 9:41 am
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I like that line from 'She's Got Bette Davies Eyes' which says,
'She's as pure as new York snow.' Meaning, I think, that she's
anything but pure.
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