Thanks, Rolf, I never saw the Letter to Chesterfield myself. Though I admit I run more to Swift's "A Modest Proposal" but then if you really want to get into being impolitic that's a stellar example!
Mitch On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 5:46 PM Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
