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Euphemisms, or, usage is weird

([personal profile] redbird Sep. 26th, 2004 09:51 pm)
A friend of mine (who can identify zirself, or not, as zie chooses) recently made a post in which zie used "shit" as a metasyntactic variable, roughly meaning "stuff like that"--and then, in the next sentence, used "poo" to refer to animal feces.
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