By the way, my thanks to William Safire, who in last Sunday's "On Language" column explained that @#&$! is derived from the latin root "$#*" and seems to be a colloquial merging of that and the old Flemish "@^%~." I'd always thought it was a bastardization of the Portuguese "%@$!"
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Date: 2004-03-05 11:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-03-05 11:59 am (UTC)Me, I've been heard to say, "Shift, top row." Or simply, "Expletive, expletive, really loud expletive."
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Date: 2004-03-05 12:37 pm (UTC)