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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 03 July 2007 - Volume 03</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Paul Finlow-Bates <<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">
wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2007.07.02 (04) [E/LS]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I
think she was being a little precious, or just anti-English. In much
of coastal England, and Cornwall I suspect, it is also the name of the
common sea-bird, the cormorant . We were even talking about shaggy dog
stories on this very site, just a month or so back.</div>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I've long believed that anybody can be offended if they try hard enough.</div>
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Paul Finlow-Bates</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(51, 0, 51); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
From: "ds" <<a href="mailto:dstokely@infionline.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">dstokely@infionline.net</a>><br>Subject: Lowlands travels<br><br></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">Sometimes you risk offending speakers of your own language,
innocent though you may be. A few years ago in Cornwall I used a word
that had no untoward meaning to me. My landlady let me know the word I
had used was vulgar, not used in polite society, something I was
totally unaware of. It was a four-letter word used to describe a
fabric with a long nap, beginning with the letters sh and ending with a
g, used much like the famous "f" word. I was glad to learn that, and
am still reluctant to use that word away from my homeland. </div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">David Stokely</span><br></div></div><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><span id="_user_wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: Lexicon</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I'm all with you there, Paul, whatever that's worth. I tend to wonder about people like that, though I totally respect people's dislike of coarse language.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I know a woman who has a list of words that are not to be used her house, in </span>
<span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">any</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> context. The list includes "stink," "suck" and "screw" ... She claims it's for the protection of her family, especially of her children. I worry about what this might do to her children psychologically in the long run. (And, no, she doesn't usually don a pilgrim's hat and a neck ruffle.)
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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