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I really don't think there's a word that doesn't mean /something/ dirty in some part of the world.
by karlkatzke 11y ago
I really don't think there's a word that doesn't mean /something/ dirty in some part of the world.
- antidamage 11y agoYeah, but this is a bit like calling it Amazon Cumswapper. There's no other valid technical use of the word.
- evan_ 11y agoMy first connection was "Snowball's chance in hell".
- eru 11y ago> There's no other valid technical use of the word. Now there is.
- grkvlt 11y agoWell, apart from meaning a ball of snow, such as might be thrown by children at each other for fun. Really, that's where my mind went with the word 'snowball', much like the rest of the anglophone world. Yes, there may be slang and other juvenile repurposings of the word, but in normal, everyday (well, wintertime everyday) usage snowball means exactly what the OED says it means. Not sure why anyone would imagine otherwise?
- buro9 11y agoThey could've called it what most people think it is: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sneakernet http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sneakernet No commonly understood dirty version of that, and I suspect most people would've thought it a very cool name as well as appropriate.
- eru 11y agoMight not be defensible as a trademark.