On Tue, 2020-07-14 at 22:59 +0200, Antony Stone wrote: > On Tuesday 14 July 2020 at 21:46:11, Martin Gregorie wrote: > > > This info should include lots of black (hashmarks, asterisks etc). > > You should be careful of the language you use these days, especially > on this > list. > > Yes, I am being sarcastic about what you wrote, but I'm also being > serious > about the apparent power of the language police. > I don't underestimate the power of the thought police (McCarthy was the standout example of *THAT*) or their, sometimes wilful, ignorance. You know what I meant, but if I'd written something like "include big blocks of attention-getting high-density characters", might that be interpreted as an attack on the comprehensionally challenged?
Martin
