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On 5/22/2012 5:29 PM, David Skolnik wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:0M4G00JWK9BAAO70@mta5.srv.hcvlny.cv.net"
type="cite">Thank you David. I am on the verge of adopting this
usage. It
will feel like an affectation for a while, but eventually, like
the
euro-seven (7 with a line through the stem) that I took on as a
youth, it
will work itself into my DNA. I just hope it's OK with the
fundamentalists.</blockquote>
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It may be okay with the fundamentalists, but I doubt it would
always go over so well with the Brits, or at least with some
of them. <br>
<br>
"Bloody" was once a fairly serious swear word there, while it
hardly is known here except from watching the BBC. Ruddy
sounds like a variant of it. "Bloody" was strong, if I
remember right, because it stands for Christ's blood. <br>
<br>
We should be careful before we decide to adopt foreign slang
when we don't know what the bloody hell we are saying. <br>
<br>
This concern may be wildly out of date, of course ... still
... <br>
<br>
s</small><br>
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