有关Dear John Letter的典故以及范例(二)

Dear John Letter 曾经引起新闻组几个同志的关注，以下是利用GOOGLE搜索到的Dear John Letter 起源的文章。
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搜到了一篇更详细的解释，不过是英文的：
http://www.wendy.com/letterwriting/dearjohn.html


Origin of the Dear John Letter
Copyright ? Wendy Russ
I received a letter asking me what the origin of the "Dear John Letter" was.
I scoured the Internet looking for some clues as to where the expression
came from. I couldn't find anything except what everyone knows... that it's
an expression used for a particular type of letter written by a woman to a
man in order to break up with him.
I'm lucky to have a strong network of "Know-It-Alls" (KIAs) that will
indulge my frequent curiosities. I asked my friend Lunaea if she knew
because she knows a ton of stuff about language and words and grammar (if
you need a copy editor, she's your gal). She patched me through quickly to
her own personal "KIA Network" and we had some success from someone there.

Anne (eadon@earthlink.net) had this to say:

"Yes, it is a war reference, and I checked with the ever-trusty OED on this
one. It looks like it's WWII, more than likely; although I suspect the name
'John' here has a double meaning — first it's slang for penis, and also
there's that 1917 song "Over There" (Geo. Cohan) with its refrain 'Johnnie
get your gun', which would make the name John mean, among the thousand other
things it sta

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