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  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    You can stick pins in your eyes - doesn't mean you have to.

    Nammit anyone ? Or possibly bait
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,355
    Fair point. I didn't meant to test the theory. Especially as I tested it before I'd heard about it. I reckon they just wrote it to wind me up.
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  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    Veronese68 wrote:
    Fair point. I didn't meant to test the theory. Especially as I tested it before I'd heard about it. I reckon they just wrote it to wind me up.

    It's those wacky Germans again :)
  • Twostage
    Twostage Posts: 987
    NGale wrote:

    Yeah Chad/Uber Chad is generally in reference to Naff/Really Naff
    I was just talking about naff. Do you know it's origin ? Navy gay slang (polari I think it's called) for someone whos straight. NAFF = not available for 'friendship' (extremely clean version).
  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    Twostage wrote:
    NGale wrote:

    Yeah Chad/Uber Chad is generally in reference to Naff/Really Naff
    I was just talking about naff. Do you know it's origin ? Navy gay slang (polari I think it's called) for someone whos straight. NAFF = not available for 'friendship' (extremely clean version).

    It's not slag used by the Navy as a whole, there is a whole other set of words when it comes to 'Jackspeak' (in fact you can buy a book on it!)

    It seems to be more a Bootneck word, although I have heard some Army folks using it and to be honest I have no idea where it came from to start with.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 27,746
    Ahem.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari#Naff
    I suspect the "Not Available For..." is a post-rationalisation.
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  • Twostage
    Twostage Posts: 987
    rjsterry wrote:
    Ahem.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari#Naff
    I suspect the "Not Available For..." is a post-rationalisation.
    Very possibly. I was remembering it from that programme a few years ago about trying to find the origins or words and getting them into the Oxford English Dictionary. Naff was one of them and they proposed the N.A.F.F. origin.
    The Internet has turned us into really good researchers hasn't it ?

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