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Yup, I'm a yank. Though I still don't understand why people censor on Slashdot. Got 3-year-old techies at your house?

Anyroad, for the other septics trying to twig: gloss-a-ry

-B

It was a pun on British slang. See "tit" here.

I think it's an Imperial thing. "can't be bothered" is a reasonable translation. No, it doesn't correspond directly, but neither does "know fuck-all" or similar constructions.

According to http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/b.htm anyway.

No, I think he was calling you a wanker.

Dictionaries do fit the criteria. They owe their existence to previous dictionaries

Counterproposal: I'm about to create a very small, very abridged dictionary here :

Doug's 2004 Dictionary

Dictionary: a book that contains words and short summaries about what each word means.

Thesaurus: a book that contains words, and then lists of words that have similar meanings to the first word.

Clueless: lacking clue.

Clue: could mean `a bit of knowledge', or it has come to mean `overall knowledge, either about a specific field or about everything'.

Shizzle: a relatively new word, made up by some rapper. It's hard to tell what it means, but I suspect it means either `sure' or `sh*t'.
(c) 2004 by Doug

Ok, that's my dictionary. I've just created it, just now. It's automatically protected by copyright as soon as I write it, registered or not. The (c) 2004 bit is not required for it to be copyrighted, but I'll include it just so there's no question.

If you feel that my dictionary is not covered by copyright, this is where you need to prove your point. If you feel that it's existance is based on a previous dictionary, then you'll need to be specific about which one. Certainly, I did not consult any other texts while writing it, and do not have an edietic memory. Also, I don't recall ever looking up any of these words in a dictionary. And consider that the word `shizzle' is very new, and not likely to be found in any dictionary more than 10 years old (and therefore all would still be covered by their copyrights, unless explictly put into the public domain.)

As another counter example, consider this -- a slang dictionary ... do you feel that he's not entitled to the copyright on his work? Certainly, he does.

Another counterexample -- these people seem to think that you keep the copyright of definitions that you add to the project. If individual definitions are protected by copyrighted, would not the whole thing also be similarly protected?

Really, you've come up with a position that's pretty difficult to support.

Claiming copyright and actually having a copyrightable right are two different things, as SCO is finding out.

As far as I know most American /.'s prefer to bash the bishop than anything else.

Strangely just came across "mad" in the other posted link:
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/m.htm

TimeZone

Personally, I don't see what all the bad movement against Microsoft is - I guess it's just everyone on Slashdot going with the flow. Personally, I'd be flushed to use one of these, after all, it saves bringing solid [reading] matter into the toilet to pass the time. I'd rather check my logs and 'take the piss' out of my friend Johnson via MSN Messenger than just sit around doing crap all.

I think he did mean tool. Check this dictionary and scroll down to tool.

toss in my experience hat

Whatever you want to do in the privacy of your own home is fine by me, but a word of advice? Don't wear it afterwards.

Maybe you guys don't have the same usage of the word toss as we do here. ;)