OT language crap Re: Insect Conductivity - language?

From: Teo Zenios <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Wed Jul 28 12:31:04 2004

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Subject: Re: OT language crap Re: Insect Conductivity - language?


> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Joe R. wrote:
>
> > >That's because calling someone a "fag" is somewhat like calling someone
a
> > >"nigger". You just don't do that unless you really want to offend
> > >someone.
> >
> > Ed and others feel exactly the same way about your use of the word
F**K.
>
> Nope, I'm not using the word to insult someone. In this particular case I
> was using the gerund form, and also as an adverb. I was not using it as
> an insult against a particular person or group of people. That's a major
> difference.
>
> > Anyway you were the one that said that it's only a word. Are you now
> > saying that some words are exceptable but some aren't? If so, then by
> > who's standard?
>
> As I've said before, use any language that you please. You just won't be
> hearing me using offensive epithets.
>
> --
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival

Some words you just don't use (when is the last time you found the word
"cunt" to be useful in general conversation with people you don't know?).

Other words have different levels of being offensive depending on who is
using it and who its being directed to.
Black guy talking to another black guy "what's up my nigger" (they are
friends)
White guy in the KKK wearing a white sheet calling a black guy "nigger" in a
menacing way.

Telling somebody to "go fuck themselves" is offensive but saying "what the
fuck" when somebody does a major screwup is not the same.

If you stay away from words that are banned from public TV during prime time
I guess you are safe with the majority of the public (assuming your not
talking about religion, politics, drugs, race, sex, asking people what they
earn, guns, abortion, evolution, athletic team mascots, confederate flags,
pledge of allegiance, violence, nudity, terrorism, the truth,
________________ <=======< Insert anything interesting here). There probably
isn't a single subject you can talk about that doesn't offend some group or
individual in some way these days, political correctness sucks!
Received on Wed Jul 28 2004 - 12:31:04 BST