Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 08:22:45 01/26/00
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On January 26, 2000 at 07:37:06, Albert Silver wrote: >>I would tell the person to grow up and learn to handle his own affairs, >I agree but hope you are a _little_ more tactful. :-) I don't think antagonizing >someone who is already feeling somewhat victimized is the way to go about it. Heh heh. Good point. Thinking about it a little more, I probably wouldn't TELL the person those exact words, but I would definitely FEEL them. >>Not a problem. If somebody is offended by reading "shit," they need to learn to >>deal with life better. >I don't agree, and I don't think it has to do with learning to deal with life >better. This isn't to say I never swear (sure I do), but I don't necessarily >want to have to read it here. I'd say this reflected poorly on the author's >vocabulary, and I'd also suggest buying a thesaurus if the author finds they >can't find any reasonable substitute. The English language is _huge_, and there >are _many_ ways of expressing oneself emphatically. I disagree. I think there is a time and place for everything, including swearing. Perhaps it does reflect poorly on a person's vocabulary, but this is a compuer chess board, not the vocabulary police. Swearing is a fact of life that everybody has to deal with these days--TV is getting more and more lax about it, and every novel that I read has some. It seems like removing the swear words from CCC is therefore a pretty pointless [and time-intensive] process. -Tom
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