Klarinet Archive - Posting 000075.txt from 2002/04

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Shocking
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:16:37 -0500

At 03:23 PM 4/2/2002 +0000, Tony Pay wrote:
>But I already said what I wanted to say, and I think you almost agreed
>with me: people are *taught*, or teach themselves, to be arbitrarily
>offended by these particular words. ('Poo' doesn't bother anyone, for
>example). Believing that using the words is 'bad', and that people who
>use them are 'bad' people, is just part of a silly system.

You are missing my point. The words themselves are not bad, it is the
context that is significant. Certain words that are perfectly acceptable
in a roomful of your drinking buddies may be completely out of place in a
roomful of nuns. It is simply good manners to temper one's discourse to
the safe side when the audience is broad and of uncertain makeup. To do
otherwise reflects badly upon the speaker.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.net
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Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

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