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From: Tony Xenos and company <ax823092@oak.cats.ohiou.edu>
Subject: Re: Tendency of Inflections to Disappear - Why?
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On 30 Jul 1996, Simon Buck wrote:

> Ysgrifennodd Tony Xenos and company (ax823092@oak.cats.ohiou.edu):
> ...
>    The nature of this intensifier is multifaceted.  First, it is derived from
>    the word FUCK, the most shocking work in the English language.
> ...
> 
> Assuming you mean `word' there. i dispute this. It is not common, but
> quite possible to hear the word <fuck> and its inflexions on television
> in this country, whereas there is a word you still won"t hear. You know
> the one i mean...

You are abcuntsolutely right!  I totally forgot about it.  Ideas on why it
isn't in the vocabulary of teenaged boys (I've never heard any of the
numerous kids I know use it) and why it has remained so taboo?

> 
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> Simon.Buck                           @ Computing-Service.Cambridge.AC.UK
> Gwasanaeth Cyfrifiadurol Prifysgol Caergrawnt, CB2 3QG, Y Deyrnas Unedig
> 
> 

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