pardon this, codger!

[Dennis R. Preston]

Jim,

My point is, as others have noted, how do you know about this inability.
When I cuss I don't wear no sign that says "Don't know no other words."

dInIs (who has already proved he knows turd AND stool)



>--- "Dennis R. Preston" <preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU> wrote:
>> 1) How do you know what people are capable of by
>> just listerning to them?
>> You don't know what they didn't choose to say.
>
>I am not stating a generalization that all angry
>people swear, nor that all swearing people are angry.
>I am saying the <<inability>> of people to express
>themselves without profanity can be a warning sign of
>anger rather than merely a warning of a limited
>vocabulary.
>
>Our difference seems to hinge on the word "unable" in
>the original question.  I took it quite literally and
>meant exactly what I wrote: "When I
>hear someone UNABLE to express themself without
>profanity, en guarde!"
>
>Jim SMITH
>
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Dennis R. Preston
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Michigan State University
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