Re: K-rad (was: txt msgs & BrSc)

JC> Steg Belsky scripsit:

>> He also used to use the word "K-Rad".
JC> "k-" is an emphatic prefix used among crackers, perhaps derived from
JC> reduplicated "k-kool" /k@'kul/, meaning "very cool".  "Rad" is
JC> probably a clipped form of "radical", but means "good, praiseworthy".
JC> Therefore this means (in an earlier slang) "swell".

JC> ADULT:  There are two words I never want to hear you use: one is
JC>         "swell" and the other is "lousy".

JC> TEEN:   Okay. What are the two words?

JC> --
JC> John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
JC> One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
JC>         --Douglas Hofstadter

that reminds me to something:

child: "mullo schnuppel bille bongo mamma pipi" .
father answers: "grabosch ! borbatz watsch kronk, ghurbratz fratzen pauke !"

do words always have to have a meaning ?
or do they have also a sound, which got an own kind of "message" ?

regards,
c.s.

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