On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 09:31:14PM -0600, Dan Minette wrote: > Come on Eric. f*** usually referrs to the forceable taking of someone > sexually. It is not part of civil discorse for a reason. If it is > used in civil discord, then it loses its meaning, and other words have > to be added to give the same meaning.
Come on Damn. Fuck does not mean rape. And it was obviously not used to mean that by anyone here recently. It was used perfectly clearly and appropriately on the list by a few people, and I undersstood exactly what they meant. If you didn't, then perhaps you need to read more carefully. It most certainly had meaning. Writing to each other as we do, informally, it is perfectly okay, even intelligent, to use any word that helps to get your point across. And even if it didn't, it is silliness to chastise people for using a word. Words are words. Chastising someone for using a certain word would be as silly as me chastising you for misspelling my name repeatedly, despite the fact that it is printed correctly at least 3 times in every one of my messages. Wait, doh! > I saw your list of uses of the word, and I am honestly not very > impressed. Get a fucking sense of humor, man! :-) -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.com/
