John Giorgis said: > In the meantime, the Etiquette Guidelines are the Guidelines for the > List.
I've just been thinking about an interesting discussion with my friend Kate, who is American. She told me that I'd been swearing a lot recently and I became very puzzled because I swear only very, very rarely. Eventually it emerged that she considered the word "damn" to be a profanity and that this classification would be generally accepted in the US (or at least among her peers and family). I very much doubt that "damn" would be considered swearing by most people in the UK, and I was quite surprised by this cultural variation. Would saying "damn" be acceptable on Brin-L? Where is the boundary? Rich, who is, for once, not being facetious.
