unfriended, long-adopted to our hate…

Jun 05, 2010 20:10

Facebook helps you find the long lost. It goes unmentioned that long lost are so for good reasons. Admittedly, sometimes reasons only seem to be good. Most of them come with an expiration date. But so do most people.

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remi_jakovlevic June 6 2010, 07:43:54 UTC
из тамошних комментариев:

"I honestly think both unfriend and defriend make sense; it just depends on preference. Personally though, I find that I usually use defriend as a future tense as in “I’m going to defriend her” and unfriend as a past tense as in “I unfriended her yesterday.”"

=> undefriend, но *deunfriend

=> unfriended ex-girlfriends не втсречается, зато: to block one's ex-girlfriend
Block - самое что ни на есть настоящее время.

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larvatus June 8 2010, 07:21:46 UTC
I like the OED quotation from Thomas Fuller: “I hope, Sir, that we are not mutually Unfriended by this Difference which hath happened betwixt us.”

For my part, another “un-” word is far more deserving of special recognition: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

And who could forget Gunnery Sergeant Hartman exhorting a hapless recruit: “You had best unfuck yourself or I will unscrew your head and shit down your neck!”

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remi_jakovlevic June 8 2010, 14:10:55 UTC
Yep, nice "unf-".
About harmony & disharmony, see also "descrewing" on www.google.com/images.

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