Rules? Rules, you ask? I'll give you the rules!
Johnneylee Rollins
johnneylee.rollins at gmail.com
Mon Aug 23 19:16:23 UTC 2010
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Cybe R. Wizard
<cyber_wizard at mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:05:42 -0500
> "Cybe R. Wizard" <cyber_wizard at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:59:02 -0700
>> Johnneylee Rollins <johnneylee.rollins at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>> > ...can you please explain profanity and
>> > the words deemed as such? I'd love to hear it. : )
>> >
>> > ~SpaceGhost
>> >
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profanity
>>
>> BTW, "suck," is one of the most-used profanities.
>> Therefore...
>>
>> Cybe
>
> Since the article is probably TL for you and you likely DR it, here's
> a little part:
>
> 'A profanity is a word, expression, gesture, or other social behavior
> which is socially constructed or interpreted as insulting, rude,
> vulgar, desecrating, or showing disrespect."
>
> Note the, "...socially constructed or interpreted..," and the part
> about, "disrespect."
>
> That means that the /society/ decides, not the
> offended individual and that being disrespectful to <insert some name
> we all know> /is/ profanity.
>
> Please read all of this TL;DR post and learn something about /yourself/
> in the process.
No thanks. :)
~SpaceGhost
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