Cliff Wells wrote: > On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 18:20 -0800, Beliavsky wrote: > > Carl J. Van Arsdall wrote: > > > > <snip> > > > > > Pyro is fucking amazing and has been a great help to a couple of our > > > projects. > > > > You should watch your language in a forum with thousands of readers. > > The LA Times had a story that claimed that 64% of U.S. citizens use the > word "fuck" and that 74% of us have heard it in public (I'll assume the > remainder are your fellow AOL users). I expect extrapolating these > results worldwide wouldn't be far off the mark (the Brits were quite > successful at spreading this versatile word).
If this is supposed to justify using bad language in a public forum, it is poorly reasoned. Having heard "f***" does not mean they were not annoyed. 100% of people have seen trash on the street, but that does not justify littering. If a group of people don't mind profanity, there is no harm in their swearing to each other. But Usenet is read by a wide range of people, and needlessly offending some of them is wrong. The OP used "f******" just for emphasis. English is a rich language, and there are better ways of doing that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
