From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!ihuxn!res Newsgroups: net.flame Title: Re: watch your language Article-I.D.: ihuxn.225 Posted: Wed Mar 9 17:06:02 1983 Received: Thu Mar 10 03:24:03 1983 Reply-To: res@ihuxn.UUCP (Rich Strebendt) This is in reaction to a recent posting by Tim Maroney. "The net uses mostly spoken English, not written. Spoken English uses profanity. In idle chats, such words are hardly uncommon." I agree that spoken English is the basis for the communication done on the net. However, profanity is not a requist part of the English language. A surprizing amount of communication can be done without the benefit(?) of verbal sewage. I would hope (though I am apparently wrong) that, by the time people have access to an academic/business network as this, the people submitting to the net would have passed through the stage of adolescence during which grossly poor behaviour is mistaken for masculinity/femininity. Judging from some of the recent submissions to the net, unfortunately, many of its users are still in a viral form of adolescence, characterized by a complete lack of concern for exhibiting even a modicum of civilized behavior. "I refuse to use some unreal grade-school language because some candyass admin type lives in some perverse dream world. Grow up!" You have it backward. THIS, outside of the University, is the REAL world. This is where people will be reacting to you and to your behavior and deciding things of importance to YOU -- things like "... should we hire this foul mouthed character?" and "... why should we trust this oaf with this big order?" and ... I must echo the final exhortation of Mr. Maroney back to him, with the hope that, with the latent high level of intelligence he has begun to exhibit, he will outgrow the need for oral bowel movements. When that happens, as I trust it will, he will then be WELCOME in the society of civilized people, not just merely tolerated. Rich Strebendt Bell Laboratories ... ihuxn!res By the way, if the above comments provoke in anyone an urge to post or mail additional net-verbal abuse, please do me the courtesy of routing it to /dev/null instead. There is no need to continue littering the net with more of that trash.