On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at 8:00:49 AM UTC-5, Todd wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 2:40 PM, zipher <dreamin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, May 27, 2015 at 6:30:16 AM UTC-5, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp....@pearwood.info> writes: > > > > > > > On Wednesday 27 May 2015 14:39, Ben Finney wrote: > > > > > > > > > That kind of homophobic slur is inappropriate from anyone in this > > > > > community. Kindly cut it out altogether. > > > > > > > > I look forward to the day when people would read the earlier insult > > > > and be perplexed as to why it is a slur at all. In the same way as > > > > "your mother wears army boots" has become a joke slur, not taken > > > > seriously. > > > > > > Yes, let's all work toward an end to the use of gender, sexuality, > > > ethnicity, and other inborn traits as the punchline of insults or jokes. > > > > Oh God, you people are being idiots. It's poop. And shall we all so look > forward to the day, when people who eat poop are also welcome into the circle > of humanity? > > If your goal is to get people to stop calling you a troll, you are going > about it the wrong way. If it isn't, why are you even here? Please remember > the first rule of holes: if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
Dude, I stopped digging into "holes" a long time ago, but then that was the issue wasn't it? And since my goal isn't that, let's go back to discussing the ins and outs (ahem) of creating a more complete lexical specification of the language, which would provide many other worthy side benefits, besides saving on typing characters. Mark -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
