On Tuesday 14 July 2020 at 23:23:29, Martin Gregorie wrote: > 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?
1. Yes, and those sectors of society defending the mentally deficient might be somewhere back in the queue waiting their turn to have a bit of a go at us for talking like this 2. My comment was not aimed at you in any way at all - it was an observation to other people on this list about a different discussion thread which you may have noticed in recent days (which, ironically enough, does include big blocks of attention-getting high-density characters in its subject line). Antony. -- https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6890 - providing 16 million IPv4 addresses for talking to yourself. Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me.
