From Slashdot's site to Jon's mind:

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> "has gotten" sounds more normal.

Well, of course! That's the *American* way!;-)

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

Uh, I'm not really up on my Britspeak, Jon. I'd never come across
_fuckery_, let alone "*like* fuckery," at all, before yesterday. And,
though I'm familiar with _buggery_, this is my introduction to "*like*
buggery."

Youneverknow.

IAC, thanks for the translation!
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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