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From: gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norm Gall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Fucking MacPassword 3.6.1
Message-ID: <7600@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 90 15:02:46 GMT
References: <651@runxtsa.runx.oz.au> <1514.25d95a24@csc.anu.oz>
Organization: York University   Department of Philosophy
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pfr654@csc.anu.oz writes:

| Jason, as a fellow Australian, I am immensely annoyed at your unnecessary 
| usage of four letter words. We all know all the four letter words, but they 
| nowadays have no real meaning and do not add anything to the language. All 
| of your writing would mean exactly the same thing without the four letter 
| words.

I'm afraid you are dead wrong here, chum. When a person says "I'm
angry"--it can be easily and non-trivially distinguished from "I'M
FUCKING ANGRY".

The writing would mean something similar, but very much different.

| I do not like reading such language, just as I do not particularly like 
| hearing it.  It does not tone in well with the nature of this newsgroup. 

Perhaps that was the idea...

nrg
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"The  mythology  of the  language   machine  is  the   mythology  of a
technologically advanced society which has not yet  come to terms with
its own linguistic self-awareness."  			  -- R. Harris