"Martin Rowley" wrote in message
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For many years, this newsgroup has muddled along quite well without the
use of foul language. In recent months, that seems to have changed. I
know this doesn't seem to be a popular view nowadays, but I (and I
believe others) find its use offensive in the extreme. It should not be
necessary to make a scientific point without swearing.


Martin Rowley



I fully agree too. While like many, I am most certainly not immune to the
occasional utterance when things go wrong in private/closed groups of
friends, the use of 'basic' language in public, not only as others have
said, reflects a lack of vocabulary (and intelligence) but IMNSHO, anyone
who has to resort to such language in a public discussion/argument, has lost
the plot, the argument and their mind.

So much is it so on USENET that this and uk.finance are about the only
groups I visit now outside of closed non USENET groups within specialist
interest areas such as e.g. CPDN. The rest of the many USENET groups I have
visited and used in the past, and no doubt many more, could all be more
suitably described if grouped together under one single heading
"alt.support.basic.anglosaxonlanguage"

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Pete

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