change from the bottom up

[Wilson Gray]

Damn, Larry! You're good! It's no wonder that I can't get "Greek
Grice" out of my mind!

-Wilson

On 4/20/07, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> 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
> >>
> >>>
> >>>On 4/19/07, Baker, John <JMB at stradley.com> wrote:
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> >>>>          Oll Korrect.
> >>>>
> >>>>          BFD I know, but NFL (in this sense) is new to me.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>John Baker
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >>>>From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf
> >>>>Of James Harbeck
> >>>>Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:04 PM
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> >>>>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.)
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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
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The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones.

                                           Rumanian proverb

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