change from the bottom up

[Baker, John]

        Oll Korrect.

        BFD I know, but NFL (in this sense) is new to me.


John Baker


-----Original Message-----
From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf
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

>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.)

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org