At 05:22 PM 7/9/98 -0700, Wm Mulligan wrote:

>It seems to me that we should be able to carry on a civil and thoughtful
>discourse without using language that might offend some people, and reserve
>the vulgar words for situations where we really want to be hateful or nasty.

Of course, the so-called vulgar words aren't only used for these purposes,
as Wallis so eloquently made clear in a recent post:

"Oh, what fun we had with that word. We have never given it up. It is to me
one of the most expressive words in the English language. Appropriate as
passionate endearment, as passionate denouncement, as world weary
resignation, as conveyor of excitement, as conveyor of disappointment. What
a remarkable word. I would not live without it."

Nowhere does she suggest she says "fuck" when she wants to be hateful or
nasty. So you are, in essence, suggesting she drop it from her vocabulary.




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