On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 09:34:50AM -0500, Jeffrey Race wrote:
On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 11:08:44 +0200, ox wrote:
then again, I may be very wrong - so help me out :)
The universal rule of ladies and gentlemen is to avoid giving offense. So one does not discuss or use references (unless in a professional context e.g. doctor) to excretion or sexual behavior. One avoids any negative references to other persons and to political or religious beliefs.
One might if one were a particularly sanctimonious protocol droid. Also, another rule is to avoid *taking* offence at the slightest provocation. As long as those above-mentioned references are not to any participant's digestive or sexual behaviour, swear away.
Those are good practices for this list. So excluding crap and merde which are offensive words.
What century is this?
doesn't occur in most of the world and it never occurred when I was growing up in 1950s America; then
This is not the 1950 and certainly not America. (The United States of, I doubt Latin America has such a hang up about swearing...)
unknown in much of the world. It's repugnant to refined sensibilities. Behaving this way doesn't betoken one's "modernity" -- it betoken's one's personal coarseness.
Arguably, if one's sensibilities are so refined, one should take care to avoid AAWG... This, and by extension, the other RIPE MLs are lists for operators, not linguists or philosophers (no offence to any ops who are also philosophers and/or linguists, one should never assume). We do, on the whole, though, call a crap a crap when we see a crap. For the avoidance of doubt, personal attacks are, of course, out of order; no matter *which* characteristic of the attacked they intend to impugn. cheers, Sascha Luck
Jeffrey Race