From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix!zehntel!sytek!menlo70!hao!seismo!rlgvax!thekid Newsgroups: net.flame Title: spoken english and profanity Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1166 Posted: Thu Mar 10 17:36:38 1983 Received: Sun Mar 13 06:42:11 1983 Sure the net uses spoken English. That's not the point. If you knew that (as is true in some cultures) to mention death was about the rudest thing you could do would you feel that your freedom from the convention makes it okay to talk about it? WE ALL HAVE OUR HANGUPS. There is no way that you are going to make me believe that it will cramp your ability to communicate to have approximately 15 (20?) words removed from your vocabulary. I won't repeat all of the arguments as to why profanity isn't "nice", why it's childish, why it's "wrong"... I don't buy those arguments, why should you. BUT... if not using profanity on the net will make some people happy, I am willing to take the "extra" effort required. Hey, that kind of language REALLY bothers some people... I realized a long time ago that many, many things just weren't worth