On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:25:09AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > 1) "flamage" appears in The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing and the > Jargon file; "flameage" appears in neither. It might be best to avoid > this word altogether and substitute something like "emotional > rhetoric".
Flames don't have to be rhetorical; example: > Anyone considering voting for me, don't, because none of you moronic pieces > of shit are worthy of my leadership. Although this one is: > What!? That is by far the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard. When did > you become such a dumbfuck? > 4) "Slanging match" may be a little too colloquial for a formal > document with an international audience. It also happens to be misspelled, it should have been "slagging match". -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
