Articulating In The Debates; The Proper And The Improper.

Oops! Some people are linguistically challenged, some are mathematically challenged, and some are conceptually challenged.Your language in those two sentences is fine.

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It's your cignature. Otherwise I wouldn't site it. (Buz is not alone. At least two other people have made funny mistakes while encouraging others not to make mistakes in this thread).

If it doesn't mean anything to you, then Hooah may have picked up from this side of the pond, where "fuck all" is old and common, and means an emphatic "nothing".From the urban dictionary:

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fuck all, nothing, nada, zilch, zero, zip, fuck, bugger all, nowt, jack shit, squat, sod all, sfa, sweet fuck all, nout, fanny adams, naught, small work, feck all, nix, sweet fa, empty, not much, all nil, fuck all squared.

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Urban Dictionary: fuck allWhy should it mean nothing? Possibly the sad story of Sweet Fanny Adams, who became sweet F. A. then F. A., then Fuck All.

Very little, I would have thought, considering that "nothing" is understood by all English speakers, and we seem to have clearly established that slang like "fuck all" and "jack shit" can be parochial, and might not be understood by some readers.However, I was just being informative and giving you the meaning of the expression and a bit of strange but hopefully interesting possible history, rather than joining in the discussion. I personally don't mind people swearing.My personal complaints would be about practical things, like people capitalizing so that we can easily distinguish between sentences. I think we should make our posts as clear as we can, so that they can be read rather than having to be deciphered. Most EvC posters keep up a pretty good standard, IMO, and some are technically excellent.