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RE: How can any grown adult use the term "potty-mouth" withoutcringing in embarassment?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:10:03 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: RE: How can any grown adult use the term "potty-mouth" withoutcringing in embarassment?
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- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Robb, Sam wrote:
> > a) The term "potty mouth" is a euphemism for "profanity"
> > and/or "obscenity" and/or "swearing".
>
> True; but the rest of your argument is predicated on the
> idea that "potty mount" is *only* a euphemism. IMHO, there
^^^^^
Hehe, Sam. Too much time spent debugging nfs-server problems? ;-)
Igor
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