Zurgle Project Update
Richard A. O'Keefe
ok at atlas.otago.ac.nz
Wed Sep 26 22:11:29 UTC 2001
"Jim Benson" <jb at speed.net> wrote:
English, Tim. Plain simple English. You're going to have to write in a
language that I can understand.
I don't know what a bounder is (I'm assuming it is one who bounds. There is
only person that I know who can properly bound, Superman.
Bounder: "a cheerfully or noisily ill-bred person".
(Pocket Oxford Dictionary.) See? It _is_ English.
I don't know the etymology, but I wouldn't be surprised if it meant
someone who transgresses the bounds of good behaviour.
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