Re: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation
| From: | Andrew Smith <hobbit@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 17, 1999, 2:01 |
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On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Joe Mondello wrote:
> I know a few people who now exclusively use "shite" because Irvine Welsh
> novels. I think they use it because a) it's different and b) they can use it
> in politer conversation, because it doesn't carry a real connotation as a
> curse (yet).
>
The Anglo-Irish series "Father Ted" introduced "feck!" to NZ, but it seems
to have died down now.
- andrew.
Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz
Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored;
Light dies before thy uncreating word:
Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
And Universal Darkness buries All.
- Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book IV.