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To: SeekAndFind

Wouldn’t it be great to hit the “Reset” button on this whole language thing? Start over fresh, and remind everyone that words are just combinations of letters - and are incapable of conveying personal insults or emotions. Don’t like it? Just mentally substitute a synonym and move on. You’re not owed an apology and you don’t have a right to be offended because someone uses a different sequence of letters than you might have. Reductio ad absurdum.


39 posted on 02/06/2010 1:07:30 PM PST by bigbob
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Stay the hell outta my yard zipperhead.

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41 posted on 02/06/2010 1:11:05 PM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: bigbob
Reductio ad absurdum.

Yes. There probably will come a day when none of us will be able to say anything for fear of insulting someone somewhere. Then humans can leave the vocalizing to other creatures. We'll let computers do our talking for us.

*rolls eyes* at the absurdity of all this PC crap

56 posted on 02/06/2010 2:37:45 PM PST by Wolfstar (Note to rigid ideologues: Your own point of view in a mirror is quite a limited window on the world.)
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