Re: RfD - N>R and NR>

On Feb 11, 11:34 am, Alex McDonald <b...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 11, 4:35 am, rickman <gnu...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have to say I never heard this when I was a kid.  It was much later
that I heard people say GD instead of saying the words out loud G_d
D_mn.  Is that any more clear?  I guess when I was a kid no one
abbreviated things like this.  Rather than trying to shield me from
words like this, it was more a matter of "do as I say, not as I do".

Rick

What!?!?!

That is some stretch, and if the radius of pollution from the original
is that large, we're all doomed to  insult or upset our over-sensitive
neighbours.

Thankfully, I live in a different place. Here we're agreed that the
word "feck", which sounds very much like the English F word, is not
offensive. It's an ordinary Scots/Irish word; to feck something means
to steal it, not to sexually assault it.

So we haven't banned it, regardless of the fact that to the average
English (or American?) ear it sounds very offensive. And we haven't
bowlderised it to the point where the example of GD now has the
meaning of God Damn, and even the word God must get underscore. For
that I'm grateful.

And thanks for explaining.

From your reply, I'm still not clear that you understand the
situation. In context GD is very clear what you mean. But if you are
tossing GD around all day talking about the company you are teaming
with, when they do something you don't like it was very easy to use GD
in a different context, sometimes to very humorous result. But we had
to be careful not to make those sorts of cracks in front of GD, in a
professional setting it would be very embarrassing. Sort of like
calling someone *** who's name is ***. It's all in how you say it!

Rick... careful!
.

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