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From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry W. Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Abuse of Language and abusive language.
Summary: On respect for the language, and the language of respect.
Keywords: Moby lossage.
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Date: 15 Mar 89 19:46:29 GMT
References: <4395@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <280003@hplchm.HP.COM> <2574@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
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In article <2574@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk
(Gilbert Cockton) writes:

 > There is no quicker way to lose people's trust than to abuse language.

And there is no quicker way to lose people's respect than to use
abusive language.

--Barry Kort