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- From: dagbrown@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Brown)
- Subject: Re: Bleeps
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- References: <1993Jan20.204043.16463@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <biddy.047a@ping.actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 09:42:19 GMT
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- In article <biddy.047a@ping.actrix.gen.nz> Bridget Ingham writes:
- [ lotsa discussion deleted for bandwidth's sake]
- >
- >Quit on the contrary! Bible says (I hope I'm not getting too religious for you to
- <Aside: Hmmm. We have here a member of the 82-column club. Makes things
- nice and easy to read. NOT.>
- Okay, so you're invoking the Bible to a newsgroup that has already demonstrated
- that it is populated mostly with:
- 1) Atheists,
- 2) Agnostics,
- and
- 3) Jews.
-
- Cool trick. Doomed to failure. At any rate, on with the rebuttal.
- >handle) that foul talk is not acceptable.
-
- Not that I ever remember. I do kinda remember the Bible saying something
- about taking the Lord's name in vain, but not about generically swearing.
-
- >I think only people who feel they have
- >the need to use an unnecessary adjective use that language.
- Hmm. Or noun. Or verb. How better can you express that something important's
- conclusively broken than, "Ah, fuck! The fuckin' fucker's fucked!" This
- gem courtesy my 12th grade English teacher. What _is_ the world coming to? :-)
- >
- >And (my mum says in the back ground) because their vocubluary is so limited that
- >they don't know of anything else to say. A saying to think about:
- Sorry, but my vocubluary [sic] is just fine and dandy, thank you very much.
- B'sides, control over the English language is not only a matter of vocabulary--
- it's how well you can _use_ this wonderful vocabulary of yours. Bridget,
- if you don't want to read any articles with "foul" language in it (although
- obscenities are older words than most of the rest of the language), then
- add this to your kill file:
-
- /fuck/a:j
- /shit/a:j
- [and so on for all obscenities you know.]
-
- But don't try to restrict our freedom of speech. End of flame.
-
- --
- Dave Brown
- dagbrown@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca
- Phone: (519) 747-5413
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