After remaining dormant on this list for so long, I was somewhat appalled as well that someone construes "sucks" as being a sexual innuendo. Like Anthony suggests, the dictionary entry is over 20 years old; words change with the times (like many other things).
And quite honestly, this actually gave me a laugh for today, that someone would make a big deal, when I'm sure I've said "This sucks" or "That sucks" many dozens times in the 15 years or so I've been a member of this forum. And for the record - the ThinkVantage software doesn't suck per se (I find it better written than software for other notebook vendors), but the website sucks. Confusing, they keep changing things, downloads are slow, links are broken, etc. Paul (who not only has his original 701CS and 755CE stored away in the closet, but uses a T60, T61p and X60 T on a regular basis) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anthony R. Gold Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 06:04 To: Thinkpad Users Group Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Does Thinkvantage suck ? ( On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:32:54 +0700, "Jeffrey Race" <[email protected]> wrote: > Indeed the vulgar sexual slang was very inappropriate for a > professional site I was surprised that you found the word "sucks" to be sexual slang or that, by implication of your cited "rant", you publicly condemned Adrian to be an assassin of English and of public civility. That dictionary entry you quoted is now over 20 years old and it offers no insight into how that word is used today. The publisher of Upside Magazine stated more briefly and less politely by own feelings about this and I support the position of Seth Stevenson in Slate http://www.slate.com/id/2146866/. On topic, I just bought a new and sealed T61, being about the most modern machine I was able to find with factory installed XP, on Ebay and I wonder whether Lenovo will give me any warranty. _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
