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Re: Meaningful acronymsPosted by TMcCO'G (maxiogee@esatclear.ie) on 24 August 2004 19:30:28 UTC |
| On 24 August 2004 13:27:33 UTC, Sean Lamb wrote: > Or our favorite from Aardman Animation... "Cracking toast, Gromit!" No Sean, the point I was trying to make to Hugh was that the word 'smashing' is an import. It is the Anglicisation of an Irish phrase 'is maith sin' which translates as 'that's good'. His beloved English language marches on and survives by taking what it feels it needs from other languages, and also by modifying the meanings of existing words - 'cool' for example refers, for a new generation, to what I would have referred to as 'hot'! |
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