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![]() "JPG" wrote in message ... It's a sign of the times. It's a fair bet that common rooms in university science departments are liberally spiced with the F-word these days, much like channel 4, reality TV and the school playground. If you ever pass a group of young people in the street, you will hear frequent expletives of the worst kind. Martin Martin, I can't echo your sentiments enough. I have always been a firm believer that the use of expletives are a cover up for a severe lack of vocabulary. I can't help thinking it is related to a more lax approach to education. Try comparing comedies from days gone by, such as "Rising Damp", "The Two Ronnies" etc. and then to current day "Roy Chubby Brown". I laugh at the former far, far more than the latter. Joe |
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"Martin Rowley" wrote in message
... 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" -- Pete Please take my dog out twice to e-mail --------------------------------------------------------------- The views expressed above are entirely those of the writer and do not represent the views, policy or understanding of any other person or official body. --------------------------------------------------------------- |
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On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 07:33:53 GMT, "Martin Rowley"
wrote: It should not be necessary to make a scientific point with swearing. Agreed. -- Alan White Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow. Overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland. http://tinyurl.com/4gday |
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![]() "Joe" wrote in message ... Well being pedantic, Martin as used a double negative, which obviously makes a positive. IMHO I think a better sentence would have been: 'A scientific point can be made without swearing'. I must admit I read it the way he intended without noticing the mistake. I had to read it a couple of times to see it ![]() It just shows how you see what you want to see..... Col -- Bolton, Lancashire. 160m asl. http://www.reddwarfer.btinternet.co.uk http://www.reddwarfer.btinternet.co....rPictures.html |
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![]() "Martin Rowley" wrote in message ... 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. Who's been swearing? I must admit I hadn't noticed any particular increase in it lately. Even during the non-appearance of much anticipated snow events in the SE and the toys start flying out of the pram there seems to remarkably little *proper* swearing. Col -- Bolton, Lancashire. 160m asl. http://www.reddwarfer.btinternet.co.uk http://www.reddwarfer.btinternet.co....rPictures.html |
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Col writes: "Martin Rowley" wrote in message ... 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. Who's been swearing? I must admit I hadn't noticed any particular increase in it lately. Nor have I. This group certainly sees much less of it than some other groups that I am subscribed too. I've been using newsgroups for about 10 years, and I haven't really noticed much change in the amount of foul language in the various groups over that time. Even during the non-appearance of much anticipated snow events in the SE and the toys start flying out of the pram there seems to remarkably little *proper* swearing. Agreed. -- John Hall "[It was] so steep that at intervals the street broke into steps, like a person breaking into giggles or hiccups, and then resumed its sober climb, until it had another fit of steps." Ursula K Le Guin "The Beginning Place" |
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![]() Martin Rowley wrote in message ... 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. I'll tell you what some posts make me bite my tongue hard sometimes. But you're right it shouldn't be necessary to swear really. I usually know I've won an argument when opponents start swearing or start slagging me off personally. Will. -- |
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