choices

[Pafra & Scott Catledge]

I agree with Bethany--some people deliberately choose to be offensive; they
are quite capable of speaking without their speech being marred by obscenity
or profanity.  Watch, now, the intellectual descendants of the Berkeley Free
Speech movement will trumpet their right to shout profanity in the church
sanctuary and obscenities in polite company.  Fortunately, my filter keeps
the most egregious off my email.
----- Original Message -----
From: Bethany K. Dumas <dumasb at UTK.EDU>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 1999 7:46 PM
Subject: choices


> On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, James Smith wrote:
> >I would add "angry" to the list of choices.  When I
> >hear someone unable to express themself without
> >profanity, en guarde!
>
> But what about all those poor people who are unable to express
> themselves without using sentences, paragraphs, and [gasp] semicolons!
>
> I am surprised that people assume that a speaker is "unable" to express
> him/herself in ways other that what s/he is choosing at the moment.
>
> Bethany