On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:32:54 +0700, "Jeffrey Race" <jr...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> Indeed the vulgar sexual slang was very inappropriate > for a professional site I was surprised that you found the word "sucks" to be sexual slang or that, by implication of your cited "rant", you publicly condemned Adrian to be an assassin of English and of public civility. That dictionary entry you quoted is now over 20 years old and it offers no insight into how that word is used today. The publisher of Upside Magazine stated more briefly and less politely by own feelings about this and I support the position of Seth Stevenson in Slate http://www.slate.com/id/2146866/. On topic, I just bought a new and sealed T61, being about the most modern machine I was able to find with factory installed XP, on Ebay and I wonder whether Lenovo will give me any warranty. _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list Thinkpad@stderr.org http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
