Re: USAGE: "I want crazy two years ago"
From: | Ph.D. <phil@...> |
Date: | Thursday, July 13, 2006, 20:32 |
Gary Shannon wrote:
>
> "Darn" can mean a lot of other things as well:
>
> "Oh darn this bad weather."
> "Oh darn the socks and be done with it."
> "Darn it all!"
A man with holes in his socks usually has a wife
who doen't give a darn. :-)
There's a set of euphemisms for swear words:
shoot, darn, dang, friggin', gosh darn it, goll dang it.
Isn't French "sacre bleu" a euphemism for "sacre
Dieu"?
--Ph. D.