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- From: nickp@bnr.ca (Nick Pitfield)
- Subject: Re: "Hack", and RTF
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.143315.23441@bnr.uk>
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:33:15 GMT
- Approved: jef@netcom.com
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- >In the song "Cocaine Blues" (George Thorogood and the Destroyers etc),
- >there's a line "You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down".
- >An interesting use of "hack"; does anyone know the connotation of
- >this usage, and/or what liguistic community uses it this way?
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- In many English speaking countries, the term "hack" is commonly used
- to describe newspaper reporters. I thought this was used in the US as
- well....
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- Regards.
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- Nick Pitfield.
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- ObHack) this message (cheesy though it may be).
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