From Slashdot's site to Jon's mind:

[Jonathan Lighter]

> "Has had" in place of "has got(ten)" is new to me, but is of no
particular interest. Not to me, IAC.

Me neither, since it sounds pretty normal. (Though "has gotten" sounds more
normal.)

"Like fuckery" sounds like an intensive. Cf. the older "like buggery,"
i.e., "like hell."

Brits.

JL

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> A comment speaking to the topic: Why eBook
> D[igital-]R[ights]M[anagement] Has to Go:
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> "Project Gutenberg _has had_ more money from me (a few hundred pounds
> in donations by now, easily, plus time spent volunteering as a
> proofreader and space and bandwidth given over for distribution, which
> has got to be worth something) than Amazon, B&N or any other major
> online publisher/distributor ever has. Why? Because their ebooks
> aren't locked down to _fuckery_."
>
> This use of "fuckery" seems different from the one defined in HDAS.
>
> "Has had" in place of "has got(ten)" is new to me, but is of no
> particular interest. Not to me, IAC.
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