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To: jongaltsr
That's def man!

I'm not deaf. I don't need that definition --- or whatever you were trying to convey.

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
def2 [def]

–adjective
    Slang. excellent: That hip-hop record is def!

[Origin: 1980–85, Americanism; of uncert. orig.] Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

Remember, Shakespeare wrote in the living language of his time. That is why we still can enjoy it today.

88 posted on 02/22/2007 9:34:35 AM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: higgmeister
I'm not deaf. I don't need that definition --- or whatever you were trying to convey.

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) def2 [def]

–adjective Slang. excellent: That hip-hop record is def!
SLANG - aka - the bastardization of the language.
[Origin: 1980–85, Americanism; of uncert. orig.] Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

Remember, Shakespeare wrote in the living language of his time. That is why we still can enjoy it today.

If shakespeare were to have writen in SLANG we would not be reading it today.
89 posted on 02/22/2007 9:45:57 AM PST by jongaltsr (Hope to See ya in Galt's Gultch.)
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