f**** buddy euphemism?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Lots of exciting new spam on Frank's horizon too!

  JL

Alice Faber <faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU> wrote:
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Sender: American Dialect Society
Poster: Alice Faber
Organization: Haskins Laboratories
Subject: Re: f**** buddy euphemism?
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Frank Abate wrote:
> It is quite amusing to me that ADS posters seem to feel sheepish about
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> FUCK
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> Why is this? Do you taboo?
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> The term is fuck buddy. Can't we post it thus?
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> Fac eu ('Be well'; Latin/Greek)
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Even if we're not squeamish, some of our mail systems might be!

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