OFF-TOPIC Re: Re[4]: You might be a VMS Bigot if.....

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Fri Oct 6 14:41:00 2000

> > The lack of so-called "vulgar" language in one's vocabulary demonstrates
a
> > fundamental lack of maturity.
>
> I would say that depends very heavily upon one's definition of the word
> "mature". I can report, without regret, that I'm unlikely ever to be
> "mature" by that definition - and I was born in 1962.
>
> (I will admit the caveat that a fear of using "vulgar" language, in the
> *very rare* situations where it really is appropriate, is also not
> necessarily healthy.)

In both speech and writing, we're taught that we can use transitional
phrases to help the flow. "Alternatively,", "On the other hand,",
"As you might expect,", and so on....

Kind funny, Dad seemed to pick up that G-D this and M-F that were
transitional phrases, rather than adjectives. This would have been
understandable had he been a sailor, but he was an M.P. in the Army.

As a small consolation, I always preferred to think that he was
reaching for words when he was p-o'd instead of reaching for a
club or a gun.

Such language is referred to as "intemperate." But at what point
does a lack of temper leave off, and righteous indignation begin?
Now, without a doubt, when he was p-o'd at my brother and I, this
was intemperate, as we could *never* have been guilty of anything
that would lead him to "righteous indignation"...

;-)

-dq
Received on Fri Oct 06 2000 - 14:41:00 BST