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Re: Bye, bye LUGNET---WHY SWEAR?
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Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:09:40 GMT
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(snip)
two words: WHY SWEAR?
My experience has been that people who swear continually aren't intelligent
enough to come up with a better word to use in their vocabulary. (I figure I'm
going to get some nasty comments from that statement..let's see how many have
profanity in them...)
C'mon--many of us are intelligent enough to be polite and proper to each
other--WITHOUT swearing?
It may sound funny at first, but how would one with children feel when the
children start going around, swearing like their parents? Does that mean the
parents scold the children for repeating their parents? If I swear on my job
(that deals in working with parents and kids), I could get fired pretty easily.
Bottom Line--be polite, and self policing. Again...why swear/cuss?
In a bit of an animal farm sense here: Words are words, but some words are
worse than others. Well, we're not in a communist/Orwellian society here, so
not everyting is exactly equal.
Scott Lyttle
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Bye, bye LUGNET---WHY SWEAR?
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| (...) The true master of language doesn't place any word in the English vocabulary off limits. In some cases, the rude word is just the correct one. Just ask Chaucer, William Shakespeare, DH Lawrence, or Henry James. Stupid use of a cuss word is (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Bye, bye LUGNET---WHY SWEAR?
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| (...) I was looking through this thread to find someone saying this, if not I was going to say it myself. I take a slightly different stance tho, to my mind swear words are useful expressions of extreme emotion and if you use them in general (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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