SV: The second-biggest frog

François Willot willot.francois at ec-lille.fr
Thu Feb 15 23:10:05 CET 2001


>From: Frank Stajano <fstajano at uk.research.att.com>
> "Nom de dieu" = "for God's sake" !
>The question was not "What does it mean?" but "Do you know what it means?".
>*I* knew what it meant -- I just wondered if the people who repeated it as
>a cute comic-style curse knew that they were uttering a mild blasphemy.

It is an innocent oath that has really nothing blasphematory, unless you are
an integrist or real fundamentalist (IMO).

  Francois




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