[Leica] Re: BE NICE!: Was Re: Mike Johnston's Rude Language

["Roger Beamon" <roger@beamon.org>]

Not so, Dante. The beginning of a post as you describe below 
does not, in the slightest, suggest what you said it might. The 
reader has to work hard at their feeling of paranoia to get that 
out of it.

And, there was no need to use the expletive that you did. It 
would have been enough to say "idiot" alone. I realize that the 
"F" word has been watered down through overuse by several 
generations, but it is still repulsive to many on the list, not to 
mention the ladies present. Don't get me wrong, I'm no prude, 
and use the word with abandon, but I was taught to respect the 
company I'm in, unless I know well what they will tolerate easily.

Mother Roger is finished now.


On 25 Nov 2000, Dante A Stella wrote, at least in part:

> I think Mike might have gone a little over the top, but Erwin's
> posts -- and this may be due to the way things come across in
> English and in email -- are occasionally insensitive and
> sometimes insulting. For example, the whole practice of
> beginng a post with "Someone on this group
> said/mentioned/opined" could come across, when put in email,
> where inflection and expression are invisible, as "Some f-----g
> idiot on this group dared to say something (I don't agree
> with/Is so simple even an idiot should understand it/Is
> intuitively obvious)."  Sometimes it's not hard to see why
> Mike may have gotten cheesed off.