Shit I don't know F***k <g>. I do it because others do it. Some people are just a bit more sensitive to colourful language than others I guess.
Dave On 7/17/05, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/17/05, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> f**k <snip> > > I'm going to veer even more wildly off-topic: > > Why, to be polite, to we put asterisks in the middle of swear-words, > to make them more palatable to sensitive readers? > > Everyone knows the person quoted meant "fuck". That's the word that > went through the minds of every single person who read the post. If > "fuck" is crude slang for sexual intercourse, and "f**k" is merely > another representation of that same word, who exactly is being spared > here? > > I don't mean to direct this question at you, David, but it's something > that I've always wondered about. I mean I don't get this sh*t! <g> > > Seriously. > > cheers, > frank, being a bit of an a**hole > > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > >
