Hello Avi! On Thursday, June 23, 2005, 12:54 PM, you wrote:
>> > ... and we know what Mary's like for couthness :) >> No, no! Uncouth is good! >> >> I just only have a religiously-inbred prejudice against seeing "damn" >> and "hell" in print. (And other such approaches to taking the name of >> the Judaeo-Christian deity in vain, by inference or otherwise.) >> >> Trying to overcome this deficiency in myself, however. :) > So let me get this straight, Mary. It disturbs you to see words like > "damn" and "hell" in print (unless they are in quotation marks), LOL And "Oh God" and "omigod" also--there's even a Smiley kicking around somewhere, too, for the last one :thinking: <sigh> > ... but > words like "sh_t", "f_ck", and... oh well... "motherf_cker" - am I not > being subtle here by omitting a vowel - those words don't disturb you? Well, yes, they do, but from a different brain-data-base. That's the "be a lady" database of my Depression-era generation. The others are from my Bible Belt brain-data-base. But I have only complained publicly on TBBETA in the past about "damn" and "hell," especially when guys were putting those into heated posts. :) Vernacular usages, such as "sweating like a pig," I am entirely at home with. We say that sort of stuff in the U.S. Bible Belt, at least in some social classes. :gdr: Are you planning to join me here for fish and parsley, shortly? (I get the fish and you get the parsley?) -- Best regards, Mary The Bat 3.5.30 on Windows XP 5.1 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.5.30 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
