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Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME

Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME

Posted Aug 13, 2012 13:02 UTC (Mon) by cjwatson (subscriber, #7322)
In reply to: Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME by nye
Parent article: Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME

Or ways in which somebody who was drunk in front of their computer once thought it might be funny to convince people that a phrase might be interpreted.

(Honestly, a bunch of the time it just doesn't bear much resemblance to any idiolect I've ever encountered, and more often than not seems to be obsessed with sex acts and/or misogynist slurs. I'm all for descriptive linguistics, but there are limits.)


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Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME

Posted Aug 13, 2012 13:22 UTC (Mon) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

Pasting nonsense definitions to urban dictionary that were made up on the spot is kind of a sport.

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