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Re: Bye, bye LUGNET---WHY SWEAR?
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lugnet.general
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:44:41 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Scott Lyttle wrote:
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> two words: WHY SWEAR?
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> 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...)
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> C'mon--many of us are intelligent enough to be polite and proper to each
> other--WITHOUT swearing?
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> 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.
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> Bottom Line--be polite, and self policing. Again...why swear/cuss?
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> 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.
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> Scott Lyttle
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
conversation then it dilutes the impact! If you use all the swear words everyday
then what do you have left when you hit your thumb with a hammer!
Quite frankly 99.9% of Lego related things just aren't important enough to
warrant the use of a swear word. (Although the colour change hasn't made me that
angry I can understand how it could do)
Tim
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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