First off: I deal with enough "political correctness" every day with people telling me what is appropriate to say and what isn't. Most of the time I ignore them. Sometimes I tell them flat out "LOOK! I defended your right to free speech don't infringe on mine!"

Secondly, I find the incidence of profanity sufficiently low here at the Monastery that I don't think it is a problem.

What is profanity anyway? From what I understand the word "bloody" is enough to get your face slapped in some circles. Over here in the U.S.A. use of that word would go unnoticed.

Other words when typed are innocent enough until you speak them out loud and then they sound like cuss words in American (and sometimes English too!) :-) An example is the word "Phrik" which is the Tai word for "chili sauce" IIRC.

If in the right context I type F*** everyone knows what I'm saying and IMHO it is the equivilant of "bleeping" the way they do on TV here in the U.S.A. which is a practice OBTW that started off being controlled by censors and is now more or less voluntary. (complicated issue we don't need to go into detail on here).

My wife tends to be sensitive to profanity. The only person she has ever told to tone it down is me! Mostly because she doesn't want our son to pick up on my colorful sailor-like language. As if that is going to do any good.

I choose to not engage in profanity when on PM and CB. There is a part of me that goes back to my days on the CB (Citezens' Band or Chicken Band as us "old timers" tend to call it) Radio back before it became popular. Profanity was frowned upon back in those days and besides the threat of the FCC coming down on you CB used to be self policing.

Nowadays every other word is the "F-word" and I have given up on CB. So with that in mind I certainly don't want to see that happen here at PM.

But then that is why we have he who guards against balshphemers around.

Controls on language here at PM? I don't think we need them. Come on, we are all adults here. We don't need a nanny...

UPDATED:fixed a coupld of typos.

Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
Peter at Berghold dot Net
   Dog trainer, dog agility exhibitor, brewer of fine Belgian style ales. Happiness is a warm, tired, contented dog curled up at your side and a good Belgian ale in your chalice.

In reply to Re: Profanity in the CB/Nodes by blue_cowdawg
in thread Profanity in the CB/Nodes by AcidHawk

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