OK, now "punk" is an acronym

[Benjamin Zimmer]

And did you catch "Naturally Intelligent God Gifted Africans" in that
Washington Post Article?


On 3/16/06, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> *And* a philosophy...!
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>   From Urbandictionary.com  [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=punk&page=2] (Dec. 24):
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>   "PUNK= PEOPLE UNDER NEW KNOWLEDGE
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> People who respect people who respect them. The fight for there own rights. They have great pride. They prevent chaos.
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> PUNK IS: the personal expression of uniqueness that comes from the experiences of growing up in touch with our human ability to reason and ask questions.
> PUNK IS: a movement that serves to refute social attitudes that have been perpetuated through willful ignorance of human nature.
> PUNK IS: a process of questioning and commitment to understanding that results in self-progress, and through repetition, flowers into social evolution.
> PUNK IS: a belief that this world is what we make of it, truth comes from our understanding of the way things are, not from the blind adherence to prescriptions about the way things should be.
> PUNK IS: the constant struggle against fear of social repercussions.
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>   PUNK: people who fight the freedom and rights of human kind! pro nature!"
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>   BTW, "acronym" must have been coined in New York City, because I've just discovered that it spells out "Another Cultural Reason Old New York Matters."  Use ad lib !
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>   JL
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