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| From | James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | rec.puzzles |
| Subject | Re: Snarge, Snafu |
| References | <1779653498-4055@newsgrouper.org> <1779653902-4055@newsgrouper.org> |
| Date | 2026-05-25 05:53 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <1779688436-4353@newsgrouper.org> (permalink) |
HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:
> Upham is a book-smart intellectual who was pulled directly from a desk job doing map-making and translation work. He is fluent in formal academic languages (French and German) but is completely alienated from combat GI subculture. Military acronyms like SNAFU and FUBAR were vulgar slang coined by frontline infantrymen to mock the chaos and bureaucracy of war. Because Upham had never been closer to the front lines than basic training, he had never been exposed to the colloquial dialect of the common grunt
>
Explain something for me please. You , like I , have a newsgrouper ID. Do you read via newsgrouper? How can you not know that your ridiculously long lines are hard to read via newsgrouper ?
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Snarge, Snafu HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-24 20:11 +0000
Re: Snarge, Snafu HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-24 20:18 +0000
Re: Snarge, Snafu James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-25 05:53 +0000
Re: Snarge, Snafu HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-25 07:56 +0000
Re: Snarge, Snafu James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-25 13:38 +0000
Re: Snarge, Snafu David Entwistle <qnivq.ragjvfgyr@ogvagrearg.pbz> - 2026-05-25 08:11 +0000
Re: Snarge, Snafu HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-25 17:14 +0000
Re: Snarge, Snafu Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> - 2026-07-22 13:49 +0100
Re: Snarge, Snafu HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-07-28 18:37 +0000
Re: Snarge, Snafu tfb <tfb@work.it.out> - 2026-07-28 19:58 +0000
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