Re: Argument

From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)

Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 02:00:31 +0000

>>Not sure if this was another joke. But honestly, an hour of MTV will =
provide you with a much more rich and strong vocabulary than this. <<

And that makes it okay?

>>Actually, I find "wanker" a rather quaint word, something that I somehow =
always associate with "british".<<

Wanker is not a quaint word, if you are British.  Wanker is a pretty unpleasant
word.

>>Guys, we're playing games where we kill large quantities of people on a =
regular basis. I can't believe we're afraid of a few tiny words.<<

We don't kill large quantities of people ona regular basis, we play games which
simulate those things.  Using bad language in a public forum isn't a
simulation, because those people on the forum aren't simulated-people, they are
real people.

Perhaps Im old-fashioned, but I personally feel that bad language in a public
is both unpleasant and unsuitable.  Generally, PBMs are intelligent creative
people, not the sort of people I expect to use bad language, so I find it all
the more jarring when it is used.

Don't get me wrong, Im a Cockney lad and when I'm out with my mates there's
plenty of language used, and Wanker is certainly not anything like the worst of
them.  But I wouldn't write correspondence in those terms, and I wouldn't
publish a magazine article using those terms.  I rather think this forum is
more like the latter, but I do respect that others may not agree with me and
that I certainly have no right to try and impose ''rules'' on anybody here.

I was simply saying that I personally find it unpleasant.  Anybody can take
that or leave that as they choose.  If somebody said it to me, I'd certainly
revise my words out of politeness, but I'm aware that there are people who just
wont give a damn, and thats fair enough.

Steve T,

References

Re: Argument
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Thu, 05 Apr 2001 10:47:44 +0000