Klarinet Archive - Posting 000237.txt from 2005/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] The Use of English
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:08:43 -0500

At 07:45 AM 11/10/2005 -0600, William Kelly wrote:
>Matthew, you are confusing offensive language with offensive ideas. Yes to
>the later, no to the former. I think this confusion is causing some
>needless complication in the discussion. I think Bill's analysis is
>accurate.
>It may indeed be that "Sometimes there is no better word in the
>language for a particular situation than a so called 'dirty word'." I doubt
>this is the case, but nonetheless in our society there are places where
>those things are either expressed without vulgarity or not at all. A place
>such as this would be a good example.

There are indeed situations where a "dirty word" can be more
appropriate. For example, while sitting with a group of your friends in a
strip bar. But most ideas, even suggestive ones, can be expressed without
resorting to vulgarity if one is willing to expend the effort. A recent
post by Dan Leeson on the correctness of the term "more correct" is a case
in point.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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