SnowDog wrote: > "Here's a clue for all you easily offended hordes out there: Profanity has > been inextricably intertwined with the written word since recorded history > began. Get over it already! I'm sorry, but calling in the Pharisees down at > the local A-G's office will probably not significantly alter the course and > substance of eternal human nature. " > > I disagree for this reason: I simply don't want our common language to be > one filled with profanity. Profanity is pointless. It transfers no > information.
Not so. Profanity DOES convey information that isn't present in the rest of the message, but it is meta information about the type and strength of feelings of the writer, and it is information that is more likely to *produce* reactions in the reader that in-band information cannot, while staying on topic. -- Randall Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Crypto key: randall.freedomspace.net/crypto.text For every new mouth to feed, there are two hands to produce. -- Peter T. Bauer, 1915-2002 --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
