FW: f**** buddy euphemism?

[Frank Abate]

Jeez, we have squeamish SYSTEMS?  I take it you mean servers and the like?

My system gets squeamish sometimes, esp. after too much fried food.

Frank Abate

PS: "To the moon, Alice!"

-----Original Message-----
From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Alice Faber
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 10:42 AM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: f**** buddy euphemism?

Frank Abate wrote:
> It is quite amusing to me that ADS posters seem to feel sheepish about
> having:
>
> FUCK
>
> . . . in the Subject line.
>
> Why is this?  Do you taboo?
>
> The term is fuck buddy.  Can't we post it thus?
>
> Fac eu ('Be well'; Latin/Greek)
>

Even if we're not squeamish, some of our mail systems might be!

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