Klarinet Archive - Posting 000021.txt from 2002/04

From: Bill Page <bill.page@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] RE: Transposition minus the bull****
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 16:28:02 -0500

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

Tony replied:
> 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.

This is, you should pardon the expression, a BS response.
Fact is, if I were receiving KL posts individually instead of via digest,
any post with an expletive in the subject would get bounced and not pass
through my company's filters.

Keeping our subject headers (and our texts, too, for that matter) clean
enough that we wouldn't mind if our dear old grannies read them is not
difficult, and is polite.

Bill Page
Kenosha WI

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