On 08/02/11 03:32, Jeffrey Race wrote:
Indeed the vulgar sexual slang was very inappropriate
for a professional site
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From: Ray Bay
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 18:20:49 -0600
Inappropriate use for this site...
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Jeffrey Race<[email protected]> wrote:
<http://www.camblab.com/nugget/slang2.pdf>
Jeffrey,
I am thinking that you live outside the US, and are therefore not
quite in tune with popular communications today?
Suck has gone from questionable to common usage, denoting
when something (or someone) is bad, horrid, in need of change
or improvement.
I suspected this was the case, it's changing usage, but I was a
little surprised when I was at a library and found a problem in
the card catalog software, and talked with one of the lead
librarians. She hadn't seen the problem that I described, but
looked down and said "this system really sucks". This was a
60+ year old woman, who chose the right phrase for the system
she was forced to use...
--STeve Andre'
ps: She owned a ThinkPad.
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