Klarinet Archive - Posting 000015.txt from 2002/04

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Transposition minus the bull****
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 11:46:43 -0500

On Mon, 01 Apr 2002 00:31:41 -0600, theshaws@-----.com said:

> For those of us with children, or who otherwise don't appreciate
> vulgar language, can we at least keep the subjects expletive free?

I suggest you're on a losing wicket here.

Children need to understand in what circumstances the use of words
commonly thought to be 'vulgar' won't be appreciated. And that
understanding is only available to them if their parents are prepared to
admit what is very obviously the case: namely that such words are in
fact used very commonly in the world. And they know all these words,
after all.

Then, they may be able to understand that Granny won't appreciate them,
and might even decide that they themselves don't want to use them.

Amongst their peers, much worse occurs, as you can probably imagine.

Tony
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