Klarinet Archive - Posting 000022.txt from 2002/04
From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay) Subj: Re: [kl] RE: Transposition minus the bull**** Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 16:38:44 -0500
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 15:28:02 -0600 , bill.page@-----.com said:
> 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.
Thank you for your polite comment.
> 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.
So?
> 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.
What an amazingly well argued post. Congratulations.
Your company is undoubtedly proud of you. (What sort of company is it,
by the way?)
Tony
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