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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 2009 19:56:46 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      M re: "damn"
Comments: cc: BenT Syncro <syncro@gmail.com>
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Dear Volks -- I'm a little squirmy about "damn." There are people around (me included actually) who take cursing seriously, and that really stands for "May God condemn him/her/it to eternal torment" which is a pretty serious thing. It's bad theology -- we don't believe God works that way -- but that's beside the point. I'm going to have to rule it out of order, because if it makes me squirm a bit I'm surely not the only one. Dam' or darn or dang or damnation or other such are fine, it's clear that it's either just an intensifier or definitely a play curse. I'd rather not see dammit though, and definitely nothing with a G attached.

As an aside, I have a certain sentimental fondness for "Well shoot fire ( I can say it sort of the way she did, but I can't spell it. Sort like faaar with a little bit of i mixed in) and save matches!" An oldish (must have been at least 40) head nurse I once served under used to say it from time to time. It was so funny that I didn't make the connection for a long time. Feel free.

Thanks much, David


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