Mitt Green <[email protected]> writes: > You miss my point. I am trying to deliver > the message that it is in my opinion > unacceptable for people to use oath and insults in > public. Doesn't matter in a pub, in a shop, > in a mailing list, in a class, in a street, whatever. > It can be acceptable in gangsta rap, in rednecks > societies, in Louis CK stand-up.
I'm afraid, I don't. I also mostly happen to agree with you save for a slightly different cultural background, (I hate using myself as an example but there's no other choice here), namely, I was born in a small, rural German town. Both of my parents moved there because they were teachers at the local grammar school and both were themselves children of people who ended up displaced because of WWII. This meant that I grew up in an environment where high/ standard German was the spoken language. Unfortunately, for most other children (and really most grown-up people from this area, too) this was the first "foreign language" they were forced to learn at school and sometimes forced to use when communicating with certain swells. Consequently, ever since I had to go to school myself, I was slated and frequently also physcially attacked on the presumption that I was intentionally trying to show my contempt for normal people because of my use of this unsavory language only the bigheaded ever use instead of the local dialect all good people appreciate so very much. And you certainly wouldn't approve of their choice of words. My conclusion from this is that what people do or don't consider "acceptable use of language" is pretty arbitrary, mostly dependent on their personal history, and a very bad indicator of attitude. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
