On 2023-01-08, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
> To heck with it, let's just fall back on Allan Sherman's
> description of a dejected man from Mars searching for his
> girlfriend, who's...
>
> Eight foot two, solid blue
> Five transistors in each shoe
> Has anybody seen my gal?
>
> Luci
On Sat 07 Jan 2023 at 17:52:43 (-), Curt wrote:
> On 2023-01-07, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >
> > To an American audience, the meaning is quite different. We only use
> > "coo" to describe the noise made by a dove, or as an (urban) slang
> > term which is a shortened form of "cool".
> >
>
> I ha
On Fri 06 Jan 2023 at 23:41:25 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 01:26:54PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > > > Rather,
> > > >
> > > > coo² (slang) interjection, expressive of surprise. (Chambers)
> > > >
> > > > and this has been around far longer than my lifetime.
>
Re: [OT] coo, was Re: Debian release criteria.
On Sat Jan 7 13:37:31 2023 cu...@free.fr wrote:
> On 2023-01-07, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
>> To an American audience, the meaning is quite different.
>> We only use "coo" to describe the noise made by a dove,
>> or
On 2023-01-07, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> To an American audience, the meaning is quite different. We only use
> "coo" to describe the noise made by a dove, or as an (urban) slang
> term which is a shortened form of "cool".
>
I haven't been following, but coo to me is the sound a pigeon makes, or
> > On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 01:26:54PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > > Rather,
> > >
> > > coo² (slang) interjection, expressive of surprise. (Chambers)
> > >
> > > and this has been around far longer than my lifetime.
> > When using slang, the current meaning is the one that will be understo
I'm only replying because I've got nothing better to do.
(Recuperating.)
On Fri 06 Jan 2023 at 15:18:44 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 01:26:54PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > And cool in this modern sense (and words like awesome, wicked, and so
> > on) is quite recent.
>
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