rantingrick wrote:
> On May 18, 12:59 pm, s...@sig.for.address (Victor Eijkhout) wrote:
>> Harrison Hill <harrish...@gmx.com> wrote:
>>> No need - I have the Dictionary definition of recursion here:
>>> Recursion: (N). See recursion.
>> If you tell a joke, you have to tell it right.
> 
> Jeez, speaking of bad colloquialisms...
> 
>  """if you're going to "share" a joke you should at least "recite" it
> CORRECTLY."""

He was her man
But he was doing her incorrectly.

I'm not convinced that this new meaning of "share" has contributed
anything of value to the language.  Which is possibly why people stopped
using it in about the 1980s.

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