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On Tuesday 01 March 2005 06:34, D. Wokan wrote: |
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> Luke-Jr wrote: |
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> >On Sunday 27 February 2005 22:34, Stephen P. Becker wrote: |
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> >>While you are at it, you should also kick any person that says WTF since |
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> >>*everyone* knows they just said "what the fuck" in front of the whole |
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> >>channel. |
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> >I'm sure that I'm not the only person who uses "WTF" as an abbreviation |
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> > for "what the fsck" instead of the more common acronym. |
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> You're still only one step removed as everyone with even one geek gene |
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> in their DNA knows you're just slipping a geek-slanged "what the fuck" |
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Sure... and Ciaran *really* meant to ask about prunes, not prudes... |
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> using an unfortunate program name abbreviation past a censorship filter |
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> and everyone without thinks you just made a typo saying "what the fuck" |
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> or did it on purpose to get past a censorship filter. |
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It may not be proper English (does anyone care too much for that?), but 'what |
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the fsck' actually has meaning. Something along the lines of 'what [ just |
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happened | are you talking about ]? sounds like something that should be run |
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through fsck.' (basically, it didn't make sense). |
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If the alternate 'wtf' has an actual meaning, I'm not sure I know what it is. |
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When I want to get the same idea as alt-'wtf' across, I generally use 'wtc'-- |
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'what the crap'-- which makes no more sense than alt-'wtf' does. |
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Luke-Jr |
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Developer, Utopios |
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http://utopios.org/ |
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