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- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!alderson
- From: alderson@elaine46.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson)
- Subject: Re: net.views - futzing (was: mainframe programmers...)
- In-Reply-To: jb-b@minster.york.ac.uk
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.205423.5965@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers
- Originator: alderson@leland.Stanford.EDU
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Reply-To: alderson@elaine46.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson)
- Organization: Stanford University Academic Information Resources
- References: <721911592.4522@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 20:54:23 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In article <721911592.4522@minster.york.ac.uk>, jb-b@minster writes:
- >In-Reply-To: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu
- >
- >I've posted this to comp.lang.pascal and alt.folklore.computers.
- >Hope this is OK.
-
- Since this has nought to do with pascal, I've removed that newsgroup and sent
- followups to this one--although perhaps sci.lang would be better...
-
- >RE: net.views - mainframe programmers in an open systems world
- >
- >I have never heard the term 'futzing' before, but I know what
- >you are trying to describe. I feel that in moderation, such
- >tinkering is very useful.
-
- "Futzing" is a typical American borrowing from Yiddish. It is used by a number
- of people who know that "putzing around" is derived from the Yiddish vulgar
- word "putz" meaning "penis," but who don't know that the Yiddish word "fotz"
- means "cunt."
-
- A bit of linguistic information across the pond...
- --
- Rich Alderson 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take
- such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
- --J. R. R. Tolkien,
- alderson@leland.stanford.edu _The Lost Road_
-