

| Subject: | Re: language |
| From: | Jake de Villiers |
| Date: | Wed, 2 Apr 2008 15:14:53 -0700 |
And where would you classify "dudn't" ?
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Mike S <mikes@flatsurface.com> wrote:
> At 05:33 PM 4/2/2008, Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote...
> >I'm sure NOT a conservative ! I find them terminally boring.
> >...an f word or two, used well <sic>...
> >We don't consider it dirty at all, but more connecting and expressive
>
> "Expressive?" Maybe for people of limited vocabulary, who seem to use
> it whenever they don't have any other word to use. Dirty? Not usually.
> Vulgar, crude, coarse, common, unrefined, boorish; always. I suppose
> speech disfluencies ("um..," "uh...," "err...") could also be
> considered "expressive" in the same way.
>
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