--- Cecil Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Mario, > Terms of endearment, or descriptive terms, used between spouses/lovers are privileged. It does not give us the right to use the same terms when referring to a person in public. > > Regards > Blacky
Mario asks incredulously: Blacky? Who the heck is "Blacky"? Lighten up, will you, Cecil (no pun intended)? We can all use more terms of endearment. It would make the world a better place. I'm sure "Bushie", as Laura calls him, would far prefer you call him this compared with what some of his local and International political adversaries routinely call him. I guess I grew up in a more laid-back small-town atmosphere among "casteless" Goans and fun-loving Anglo-Indians where our closest friends were affectionately called "jackasses" when they deserved it. So something benign like "Bushie" and "Pope Benny XVI" seems to me to be fairly harmless A US president is a commoner like everyone else, and one of my problems with the Catholic Church is the use of terms like Popes "reigning" and the Cardinals being "Princes of the Church". How did we drift so far from the manger in Bethlehem? Anyway, that's my opinion, and I'm sticking to it.
