On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 07:54:01 +1100 Jim Lemon <drjimle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Elaine, > There seems to be a popular contest to discover offence everywhere. I > don't think that it does anything against racism, sexism or > antidisestablishmentarianism. Words are plucked from our vast lexicon > to comfort or insult our fellows depending upon the intent of the > user. It is the intent that matters, not the poor word. Chasing the > words wastes your time, blames those who use the words harmlessly, > and gives the real offender time to find another epithet. Jim: This is superbly expressed. I wish that I could have said that! Your posting should go down in the annals of brilliant rhetoric, alongside Dr. Johnson's "Letter to Lord Chesterfield". cheers, Rolf -- Honorary Research Fellow Department of Statistics University of Auckland Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
