How can any grown adult use the term "potty-mouth" without cringing in embarassment?

Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Fri Jan 14 20:10:00 GMT 2005


On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Robb, Sam wrote:

> > a)  The term "potty mouth" is a euphemism for "profanity"
> > and/or "obscenity" and/or "swearing".
>
> True; but the rest of your argument is predicated on the
> idea that "potty mount" is *only* a euphemism.  IMHO, there
                   ^^^^^
Hehe, Sam.  Too much time spent debugging nfs-server problems? ;-)
	Igor
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