Re: TI-H: Grant, I blame you

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Re: TI-H: Grant, I blame you


Well I was walking by a cubical the other day late after work and a female
employee was having sex with a linux box, so I guess linux is male.

At 11:47 AM 12/30/98 PST, you wrote:
>
>><< (just j/king, nothing personal.. I just
>> wonder if my ISP noticed the sudden surge in incoming email... :)>>
>>
>><grammar police>
>>j/k means 'just kidding'     so you essentially just said: 'just just 
>kidding'
>></grammar police>
>
><nitpick>
>I don't believe that internet shorthand falls under proper
>grammer rules.  Although the term "j/k" is used almost
>exclusively as shorthand for "just kidding", there are no
>formal rules, so the meaning must be inferred from the context.
>
>In this case, "j/k" is apparently being used as shorthand
>for "joke", yeilding "just joking".  Curiously, the added
>"ing" suffix requires the removal of the "e" from "joke"
>anyway, and thus saves no keystrokes whatsoever.  Therefore,
>in this case it would have been clearer to simply type the
>entire word "joking" instead of attempting to use a shorthand
>version.
>
>It is of course possable that "just j/king"  is, as you
>noted, a perverted form of "just kidding", in which case
>I agree with your assment of redundancy.  I would presume
>that the author of the statment either did not know the
>common usage of "j/k" or has simply included it in a
>misguided attempt to avoid typing out "kidd".
></nitpick>
>
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>Howd'ya like them apples, huh?
>DK
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