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To: grey_whiskers
Obviously, you don't know the meaning of the word "PROFANITY"; pity that.

What I posted is not, by any stretch of the imagination "profanity" and the other poster claimed that it was "bad manners", which it wasn't/isn't either.

Words have specific meanings...go buy yourself the Oxford English Dictionary and memorize it, prior to posting ever again.

252 posted on 11/08/2017 9:47:13 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
The primary meaning of profane is ~ "irreverent" ; but a second meaning is "rude, vulgar".

One might note in this connection that Protestants tend to view explicit language regarding bodily functions (sexual *or* scatological) as profane but don't mind the occasional "Damn", whereas (say) Catholics or Orthodox are more scandalized by irreverence.

cf for example C.S. Lewis's remarks in Mere Christianity:

Some of the language which chaste women used in Shakespeare's time would have been used in the nineteenth century only by a woman completely abandoned.

or in That Hideous Strength:

"At every moment [Mother Dimble] seemed to join hands with some solemn yet roguish company of busy old women who had been tucking young lovers into beds since the world began with an incongruous mixture of nods and winks and blessings and tears---quite impossible old women in ruffs or wimples who would be making Shakespearean jokes about codpieces and cuckoldry at one moment and kneeling devoutly at altars the next. It was very odd.."

Nice try, though.

255 posted on 11/08/2017 11:13:51 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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