change from the bottom up

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri Apr 20 19:46:26 UTC 2007


At 3:19 PM -0400 4/20/07, Wilson Gray wrote:
>Oh. Thanks, Larry. I didn't know. Would that I had written, "... but I
>don't know 'DK'"! Oh, well.
>
>-Wilson

At the same time, I figured I was on firm ground, since even if I was
wrong, I was (ipso facto) right.

LH

>
>On 4/20/07, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>>>I know NFL, but what is "DK"?
>>>
>>>-Wilson
>>
>>don't know.
>>
>>LH
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>>>
>>>On 4/19/07, Baker, John <JMB at stradley.com> wrote:
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>>>>Poster:       "Baker, John" <JMB at STRADLEY.COM>
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>>>>          Oll Korrect.
>>>>
>>>>          BFD I know, but NFL (in this sense) is new to me.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>John Baker
>>>>
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>>>>Of James Harbeck
>>>>Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:04 PM
>>>>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>>>>Subject: Re: change from the bottom up
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>>>>>Surely it is an IM or text messaging
>>>>>initialism like LOL.  Didn't everything start with the internet?
>>>>
>>>>DK.
>>>>
>>>>NFL.
>>>>
>>>>BFD.
>>>>
>>>>James Harbeck.
>>>>
>>>>(The second initialism was one that my brother and I, and I think we
>>>>weren't the only ones, used to express an assessment of particular
>>>>unlikeliness. ca. 1980. I think the third one is, or was, rather common,
>>>>at least in our neck of the woods. Hands up if you know it.)
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>>>
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>>>come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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>>>                                                       -Sam'l Clemens
>>>
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>All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
>come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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>                                                      -Sam'l Clemens
>
>"Experience" is the ability to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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