Re: List oddity
Re: List oddity
- Subject: Re: List oddity
- From: Tommy Bollman <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 14:48:43 +0200
Hello.
Well the fact is is that "fua bar" is an expression from here, and that there were lots of immigrants from here to the U.S in the early first half of the 20th century, which means that the guy who started writing it, would have had an able chance to pick it up. It is also a a fact that an english man would perceive it as foo bar. when he heard it, and pronounce it that way, and there is a short step from pronouncing to spelling. And he would likely to know that use the expression as an idiom for some kind of anomaly or something weird. :-)
Well we may never know the true store, but beliefs is a matter of will and you can't change mine ;-)
On 3 Aug 2010, at 13:28, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Tommy Bollman <email@hidden> wrote:
>> By the way foo bar did originate from the *very* *part* of my world, it is spelled and pronounced "fua bar" I guess it wandered over the us through Brooklyn NY, where many Norwegians from my hometown immigrated. An english man or American would pronounce this like "foo bar", it means literally "bare ass", and that someone goofed. If you say about someone that he walks around with his bare ass here, then he has goofed in one way or another.
>
> The origin of "foo bar" is not known for sure, but I haven't seen the
> Scandinavian languages mentioned as an origin before... see
> http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/F/foo.html.
>
> --
> Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
>
Best regards
Tommy Bollman
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