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On 2017-12-13 10:06, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> A good healthy dose of manners like your Mama taught you is in short |
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> supply around here right now. |
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The worst insults are stated without any foul language. Indeed, I'll |
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say that in general "insulting" is an attribute of ideas, not of words. |
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Some of the time, at least, people who resort to swearing do so in |
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reaction to such soft-spoken insults. (Equally on all sides of all |
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issues). |
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I'll try not to feed this monster thread any longer, I promise. |
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Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, |
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if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. |
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To reply privately _only_ on Usenet, fetch the TXT record for the domain. |
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