Profanity on Usenet

[Donald L. Johnson <70524.1023@CompuServe.COM>]

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I think it was <hchan@neptune.uucp (Violens Schultz)> who asked:
 
> What kind of people do you hang around with who get so mortified
> at profanity like you?
 
I spent over 20 years in the enginerooms of nuclear submarines.  I'm
no stranger to profanity - I'm not used to it, but neither am I upset
by it.  But no matter how prevalent it may be in many people's
everyday conversation, I don't use it in my own.  I don't like it,
99.5% of the time it is not appropriate to either the situation or
the
participants, and I have sufficient command of the English language
that I can express myself quite well without resorting to deletable
expletives.
 
As Joe Kohn has reminded us all, there are children on the net, and
probably reading this newsgroup.  I don't know about most of you, but
the way I was raised, the use of profanity around children is always
inappropriate.  It's a serious breach of civility, it's disrespectful
to them, and it sets a poor example.  Using such language because
someone else does only lowers you to their level.
 
Nobody here on the net has the right or the authority to tell you
that
you CANNOT use profanity.  However, quite a few of us will tell you
that we don't appreciate it, and we just might decide not to respond
to your posts, or add your ID to our "kill files" if you continue to
use such language.  There are many ways to tell somebody like
dialtone95@aol.com (did he ever sign his real name to a post?), for
example, what a close approximation of a horse's posterior he is, and
how much his stated opinions of Apple II computer users resemble the
excretia therefrom, without using any of George Carlin's "7 Words You
Can't Say On TV."
 
Ad Astra
Apple II Forever!
Watch your language, there may be children present.
 
Donald L Johnson
EMC(SS) USN (Retired)