[OT] What's an iPad?

[Richmond Mathewson]

  On 11/04/2010 23:08, Judy Perry wrote:
>
> --Well, it, and its companion adjective denk/dank, both have roots in 
> the drug culture, as does one of the teens in question, and hence they 
> were shocked to hear my 9 year olds repeating these words in public.  
> They seem not to have grasped that you don't teach kids words you 
> don't want them to be using.

Many, many years ago when I was about 7 I dropped something heavy on my 
foot and exclaimed "Bloody hell!'

My mother was not at all happy about this; especially when I pointed out 
that my father had used it the day before when he
cut his finger sawing wood.

However; words, as we all know, don't carry semantic loads around with 
them; we apply semantics to words when
we hear them, so what constitutes a 'bad' word is a bit of a moot point.

The plumber broke his ankle when he was tap dancing; because he slipped 
and fell in the bath.

The whole joke depends on the person who hears it NOT calling the thing 
which the water comes out of
a faucet.